Hi,
On Sat, 4 Jan 2025, 04:30 Onyeibo Oku, <onyeibo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Happy New Year everyone,
I am getting an error message on my status bar (which depends on
a manager called bumblebee-status). The message reads:
[Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/proc/net/wireless'
This has been the case for weeks. I assumed the issue would go away
after subsequent updates but it persists. All the while, I cannot see
the state of my wireless connections via the status bar.
Yes, it has really gone, it's been deprecated since 2006.
I filed a bug report against bumblebee-status
(https://github.com/tobi-wan-kenobi/bumblebee-status/issues/1029).
Bumblebee should move to using the netlink (libnl) interface for reporting wireless status. I can provide more details on that ticket if it's needed when I'm back at my keyboard
The maintainer thinks my wireless driver has issues. I, therefore, failed
a corresponding report against the driver
(https://github.com/clnhub/rtl8192eu-linux/issues/111).
The rtl8192 driver was the last one using it, that driver was dropped from the kennel recently,
According to the driver maintainer, Fedora deprecated "Wireless
Extensions" which is responsible for "/proc/net/wireless". While the
decision does not affect the operations of the wireless driver (because
I am able to access the internet through the device), tools
that query network status via "/proc/net/wireless" appear to be
affected.
All the tools that are packaged in fedora have long been migrated.
I even have a related report againt the kernel
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2334171). What is the way forward?
What is the alternative to "/proc/net/wireless"? Perhaps, someone here
may have information that will be beneficial to the maintainers above.
Wireless-extensions have been deprecated since 2006, it's not properly reported details on all sorts of things like standards like 802.11n and newer and doesn't work at all with WiFi -7 and is due to be removed upstream soon.
Peter
-- _______________________________________________ test mailing list -- test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to test-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
