Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751930AbaL3PVX (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2014 10:21:23 -0500 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:50552 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751268AbaL3PVW (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2014 10:21:22 -0500 Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 16:21:19 +0100 (CET) From: Jiri Kosina To: "Grumbach, Emmanuel" cc: Peter Hurley , Emmanuel Grumbach , "Berg, Johannes" , Intel Linux Wireless , linux-wireless , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: RE: iwlwifi-driver card doesn't work with 3.19-rc2+ In-Reply-To: <0BA3FCBA62E2DC44AF3030971E174FB31B5DC915@hasmsx107.ger.corp.intel.com> Message-ID: References: <54A2B807.1020202@hurleysoftware.com> <0BA3FCBA62E2DC44AF3030971E174FB31B5DC915@hasmsx107.ger.corp.intel.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LNX 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 30 Dec 2014, Grumbach, Emmanuel wrote: > > > So why do you used them? > > > They have been deprecated for a couple of years now. You should be > > > using nl80211 based tools such as iw. > > > > A couple of years is not very long where userspace is concerned. > > > Well - the decently new wireless tools do talk nl80211. With 3.18-rc5, I get this: # iwconfig --version iwconfig Wireless-Tools version 30 Compatible with Wireless Extension v11 to v22. Kernel Currently compiled with Wireless Extension v22. wlan0 Recommend Wireless Extension v21 or later, Currently compiled with Wireless Extension v22. With 3.19-rc, I get (with the same userspace) this: # iwconfig --version iwconfig Wireless-Tools version 30 Compatible with Wireless Extension v11 to v22. Cannot read /proc/net/wireless And nothing else (iwlist, etc) works either. This is with # rpm -qi wireless-tools | grep Ver Version : 30.pre9 from openSUSE 13.2. That's not decently new enough? > You can still enable it (CFG80211_WEXT). > It has been disabled by: > > commit 24a0aa212ee2dbe44360288684478d76a8e20a0a > Author: Johannes Berg > Date: Fri Nov 28 12:14:06 2014 +0100 > > cfg80211: make WEXT compatibility unselectable I think this needs to be reverted. -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/