On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:26:41 +0100, "Johannes Berg" <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: > There's libnl 1.2 and 2.0? That's news to me! Patches welcome. Sorry, I > guess it needs 1.0 or 1.1, will fix the page. Well at http://people.suug.ch/~tgr/libnl/ it still only lists 1.1 but the git repository shows a clear move to 2.0 (forget I mentioned 1.2, that was my own tracking label). The code had a bunch of commits in October. In retrospect, if I just downloaded the 1.1 tarball from that webpage instead of using the git HEAD everything would have been fine. Patches can probably wait until 2.0 is officially released. > > > That's what I thought but I wasn't seeing any callbacks at all through > > my ieee80211_ops pointers. I did see the channel frequency change with > > 'iwconfig wlan0', but no callbacks. My fault, again, for not RTFM. I > > haven't gotten to the point yet on my driver where I expect 'ip link set > > up dev wlan0' (or 'ifconfig wlan0 up', if you prefer) and now I see > > that's why the config callback never happened. > > Ah. Yes, if the hw isn't started mac80211 won't try to configure it :) > > > If I had RTFM I might > > have noticed adding 'commit' at the end of the iwconfig command would > > have done it without the 'up'. > > No, it wouldn't, commit is pointless, don't worry about it, you'll never > need to use it with mac80211. When I reboot, modprobe the driver, and do 'iwconfig wlan0 channel 9 commit' the .config callback does run. If I leave off the 'commit' it does not. I'm trying to validate as many callbacks as I can before moving on to the next step, enabling the interface. An additional question, if I may... Is wlan0 considered a "virtual interface" or does that term only apply to additional interfaces created with iw? The whole vif thing has me a little confused. Thanks for the help. -- Dan -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Accessible with your email software or over the web -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
