Return-path: Received: from mail-ey0-f174.google.com ([209.85.215.174]:43752 "EHLO mail-ey0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1749667Ab1HRECG convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Aug 2011 00:02:06 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: From: Pavel Ivanov Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 00:01:34 -0400 Message-ID: (sfid-20110818_060225_676943_C8A3BD0D) Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath9k: make driver usable standalone To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E1bor_Stefanik?= Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Jouni Malinen , Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan , Senthil Balasubramanian , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > 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 G?bor Stefanik : > 2011/8/17 Pavel Ivanov : >>> 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 G?bor Stefanik : >>> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 5:28 AM, Pavel Ivanov 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 >>>> --- >>>> >>>> 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