On 01/26/11 16:23, Hauke Mehrtens wrote: > On 01/26/2011 08:34 PM, 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. > Hi, > > you have to activate CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT and nothing else to use the > wext interface. You can not doe this directly in your kernel config, you > have to modify the KConfig or build something that depends on > CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT like ipw2200. Just set CONFIG_IPW200=m in the kernel > configuration and it will also activate CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT=y Ah, I googled before but I never found that, thanks. I will just try to use iw. :-) -- 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
