Return-path: Received: from mail-wm0-f48.google.com ([74.125.82.48]:35191 "EHLO mail-wm0-f48.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759094AbcAKLbx (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jan 2016 06:31:53 -0500 Received: by mail-wm0-f48.google.com with SMTP id f206so207488268wmf.0 for ; Mon, 11 Jan 2016 03:31:53 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 12:31:52 +0100 Message-ID: (sfid-20160111_123157_159513_9DE4FFAC) Subject: Re: WLAN drivers provided by Realtek do not work with backports (cfg80211 module not compatible) From: Janusz Dziedzic To: Bartlomiej Grzeskowiak Cc: linux-wireless Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 11 January 2016 at 12:02, Bartlomiej Grzeskowiak wrote: > We use 8192cu and 8811AU provided by Realtek. Our kernel is 3.10. > We would like to add parallel support for ath10k_pci from backports. > > However after inserting compat.ko, cfg80211.ko and mac80211.ko from > backports, 8192cu.ko and 8821au.ko terminate with following message: > [ 512.188364] 8192cu: Unknown symbol wiphy_new (err 0) > [ 512.188481] 8192cu: Unknown symbol cfg80211_send_disassoc (err 0) > [ 512.188554] 8192cu: Unknown symbol cfg80211_send_rx_assoc (err 0) > [ 512.188607] 8192cu: Unknown symbol cfg80211_inform_bss_frame (err 0) > Seems they were renamed/cleaned in patch: cfg80211/mac80211: clean up cfg80211 SME APIs so, newest cfg80211.ko don't have them. Patch for 8192cu seems to be required - at least to use this new API. BR Janusz > Those interfaces are exported when I load cfg80211.ko compiled from kernel 3.10. > But I can not see them in cfg80211.ko provided by backports. > > Do you know this problem ? > Is there any easy way to solve this issue ? > > BR > Bartek > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html