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Subject: Re: Thinkpad X60s/200s: Intel 3945/5100 works with kernel
 2.6.32-67/3.0.0-32 but not 3.7 vanilla.
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
Cc: Emmanuel Grumbach <egrumbach@gmail.com>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	"ilw@linux.intel.com" <ilw@linux.intel.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 11:39:20 +0100
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On Mon, 2014-11-10 at 11:30 +0100, Uwe Brauer wrote:
>    > On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> wrote:
> 
>    > you problem is that you didn't compile the kernel with wireless
>    > extensions. This interface is deprecated, but I don't remember if it
>    > was the case for 3.7.
>    > In any case, this is a problem in your config, not a driver issue.
> 
> What make you say that?
> My config file concerning wireless options is:
> 
> CONFIG_WIRELESS=y
> CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT=y
> CONFIG_IPWIRELESS=m

You'd need CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT (or so) as well, but realistically you
should stop using wireless extensions and use nl80211 (via the "iw"
tool) instead.

johannes