Re: iwlwifi-driver card doesn't work with 3.19-rc2+

Larry Finger
2014-12-30T22:35:50Z

On 12/30/2014 03:23 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 09:41:41PM +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote:
>> If wireless maintainers think otherwise, I'll send a revert request to
>> Linus for consideration.
>
> I wonder if the reaction would be like this one:
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75
>
> :-)

It would be a little like that.

One thread of interest is https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/12/22/348. Commit
24a0aa212ee2 ("cfg80211: make WEXT compatibility unselectable") made it
impossible to select the IPW2200. The patch to allow selecting the IPW2200,
which automatically selects CFG80211_WEXT has been added to wireless-drivers,
but it has not yet made it to mainline. Once it does, then choosing to build the
IPW2200 will provide a workaround.

In my opinion, the need for the IPW2200 to have CFG80211_WEXT means that the
original commit will likely be reverted, but your voice will help.

I use openSUSE 13.2, but I control my wireless with NetworkManager. For that
reason, this is a non-issue for me.

Larry