> Iwconfig and iwlist are themselves deprecated. Iw is the new wireless > configuration tool. I've just tried to use iw and it didn't quite work for me. Maybe it's interfering with something installed in Ubuntu by default but connect/disconnect commands didn't seem to do anything. And why these commands can be executed only as root? Well, maybe in Ubuntu 11.10 it will work better. Pavel 2011/8/17 Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d@xxxxxxxxx>: > 2011/8/17 Pavel Ivanov <paivanof@xxxxxxxxx>: >>> WIRELESS_EXT is not required for configuring wireless on recent >>> kernels - in fact, the WEXT API is deprecated in favor of nl80211 now. >> >> Since what version it's deprecated? Do user-space tools know about this new API? >> >> Neither iwconfig nor iwlist worked for me without WIRELESS_EXT. >> >> >> Pavel >> > > Iwconfig and iwlist are themselves deprecated. Iw is the new wireless > configuration tool. > >> >> 2011/8/17 Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d@xxxxxxxxx>: >>> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 5:28 AM, Pavel Ivanov <paivanof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> When ath9k is the only wireless driver included in the build >>>> WIRELESS_EXT configuration option becomes undefined. Because of that >>>> driver becomes essentially unusable as you can't actually connect to >>>> any WiFi network. By including WIRELESS_EXT into Kconfig we ensure >>>> that build with ath9k and without other drivers (having WIRELESS_EXT >>>> selected in their Kconfig) is actually usable. >>> >>> WIRELESS_EXT is not required for configuring wireless on recent >>> kernels - in fact, the WEXT API is deprecated in favor of nl80211 now. >>> >>>> >>>> Signed-off-by: Pavel Ivanov <paivanof@xxxxxxxxx> >>>> --- >>>> >>>> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/Kconfig >>>> b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/Kconfig >>>> index d9c08c6..2573f77 100644 >>>> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/Kconfig >>>> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/Kconfig >>>> @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ config ATH9K >>>> select LEDS_CLASS >>>> select NEW_LEDS >>>> select ATH9K_COMMON >>>> + select WIRELESS_EXT >>>> ---help--- >>>> This module adds support for wireless adapters based on >>>> Atheros IEEE 802.11n AR5008, AR9001 and AR9002 family -- 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
