Hi Jouni, > > I am trying to use wpa_supplicant in D-Bus mode with the nl80211 driver > > instead of WEXT. I don't seem to be able to control the from the command > > line and the -D option doesn't take. > > I would assume you are doing this with NM. You could either change it to > register the interface (this is not from -D option, but from the D-Bus > message) with the nl80211 driver or try to build wpa_supplicant without > WEXT support (which would make the nl80211 wrapper the default one). I > don't think either of these are yet acceptable as a generic solution, > but making NM request driver "nl80211,wext" could be a suitable first > step when moving to wpa_supplicant 0.7.x (this makes wpa_supplicant > first try with nl80211 and if needed, fall back to WEXT). I am doing manual testing and with ConnMan. However I would prefer to have a global driver setting "nl80211,wext" that I can give on the command line and that will then chosen as default if the addInterface method doesn't give a driver. I really don't need a per interface setting here. > > Can we fix this somehow? I really wanna get rid of using WEXT. > > There still one remaining WEXT operation even with driver_nl80211.c in > wpa_supplicant, so we are not yet there, but there is work going on in > getting that added to nl80211 after which point -Dnl80211 (or > -Dnl80211,wext for more likely distro use) should allow this goal to be > met. Fair enough, but we are getting there and when testing, I like to be using as much nl80211 as possible. Regards Marcel -- 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
