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On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:34:34 -0500 James wrote:

> I installed compat-wireless-2011-01-25 and iwlist doesn't work but iw does.
> The warning dmesg shows is "cfg80211: wext will not work because kernel
> was compiled with CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT=n. Tools using wext interface,
> like iwconfig will not work." which is fine BUT my kernel is compiled with
> CONFIG_WIRELESS=y
> CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS=y
> and those are the only 2 'WIRELESS' anything.
> 
> I have kernel 2.6.36.3.

How about /WEXT/ anything?

I guess that you also have CONFIG_WEXT_CORE enabled?


I don't know about the tools issue though.

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