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From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@adurom.com>
To: Nick Thomas <nhomas@gmail.com>
Cc: Sujith Manoharan <sujith@msujith.org>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ath9k] Recent driver versions break compatibility with AR9285 for me
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:03:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87boawaamw.fsf@purkki.adurom.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEk6VBHTWn8CX7SKNVQz+T+Wqwe9Na=32Lz=+xOdqncNZFhhkQ@mail.gmail.com> (Nick Thomas's message of "Wed, 6 Mar 2013 00:00:13 -0700")

Nick Thomas <nhomas@gmail.com> writes:

> The latter iwconfig readout is from an old kernel version (3.2.39),
> where the card does indeed work. What I wish to report is that in a
> more recent kernel version (3.7.10), the card doesn't work (iwconfig
> says "no wireless extensions"). It's not a problem for me (I'm happily
> using the old kernel), but I thought it was worth reporting.

What if 3.7.10 kernel just doesn't have the old wireless extensions
(CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT) enabled? Did you try iw which uses nl80211?

http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/iw

-- 
Kalle Valo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-03-06 14:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-06  5:42 [ath9k] Recent driver versions break compatibility with AR9285 for me Nick Thomas
2013-03-06  6:03 ` Sujith Manoharan
2013-03-06  7:00   ` Nick Thomas
2013-03-06  7:30     ` Sujith Manoharan
2013-03-06 14:03     ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2013-03-06 20:32       ` Nick Thomas

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