> In the end, you probably want to be using wpa_supplicant instead of > trying to configure stuff with iw directly. I see Ubuntu already have wpa_supplicant installed and running. Although its command line is not what suggested in documentation and I don't see configuration file /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf. Does that mean it works somehow differently than stated in documentation? And also does all this mean that even if I'll be able to make wpa_supplicant work as I need I won't be able to control wireless connection using the standard Ubuntu's icon and it won't show me its state correctly? Pavel On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2011-08-18 at 00:01 -0400, Pavel Ivanov wrote: >> > 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 > > Ubuntu installs NetworkManager by default, so if you want to manually > control the wifi card you'll have to tell NM to ignore the wifi device, > or turn NM off temporarily. > >> connect/disconnect commands didn't seem to do anything. And why these >> commands can be executed only as root? > > Because poking and configuring hardware is a privileged operation; tools > like NetworkManager selectively poke holes through that wall and often > require administrator passwords to do it, but at the end of the day its > an operation that can affect security and stability, and that means it > needs to be privileged. > > In the end, you probably want to be using wpa_supplicant instead of > trying to configure stuff with iw directly. > > Dan > >> 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 > > > -- 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
