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From: Pavel Ivanov <paivanof@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 00:27:46 -0400
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath9k: make driver usable standalone
To: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
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	Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>,
	Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>,
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On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Pavel Ivanov <paivanof@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Or, since I'm a NetworkManager developer, is there something that you're
>> not sure how to make NM do, or are you just looking to experiment?
>
> I want to make the wireless work when kernel is compiled without
> WIRELESS_EXT. Last time I tried it Ubuntu (I guess I should say
> NetworkManager) wasn't able to discover any wireless networks in our
> area and wasn't able to connect to my default network. Was it supposed
> to do that?

Well, I guess I should say sorry. After all this discussion I've tried
to compile and boot kernel without WIRELESS_EXT once more. And now it
worked.
Last time I tried it was 3.0. Driver from vanilla sources didn't work,
so I compiled compat-wireless-3.0-2 and it did warn me during
compilation, something like "WIRELESS_EXT is not set, something won't
work". Then after boot syslog had somewhat the same message and
wireless didn't work. That's why I started this thread. Now with
3.1-rc2 everything works as is, no warnings in syslog and
NetworkManager connects to my network without any problems. I don't
know what has changed but I feel very sorry for all this mess.


Pavel