Return-path: Received: from mail-gx0-f174.google.com ([209.85.161.174]:54938 "EHLO mail-gx0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752136Ab0KDOxP (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Nov 2010 10:53:15 -0400 Received: by gxk23 with SMTP id 23so1458464gxk.19 for ; Thu, 04 Nov 2010 07:53:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4CD2C8F4.5000309@lwfinger.net> Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 09:53:40 -0500 From: Larry Finger MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Johannes Berg CC: wireless Subject: Re: Question about wireless configuration References: <4CD2B6E9.9080303@lwfinger.net> <1288878640.10023.2.camel@Nokia-N900-51-1> In-Reply-To: <1288878640.10023.2.camel@Nokia-N900-51-1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 11/04/2010 08:50 AM, Johannes Berg wrote: >> I am trying to test the latest Realtek driver for the RTL8187L. In order >> for the driver to be able to scan, CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT must be set to >> "y". I could find no way to do that with the kernel configuration >> utilities until I made the following patch. I know it is wrong, but I >> would like to know the correct way. > > There is no correct way, drivers that need it will select it in kconfig which obviously doesn't work for out-of-tree drivers. Thanks. I selected ZD1201 in the configuration, and WIRELESS_EXT is there. Larry