Messages in this thread | | | From | "Grumbach, Emmanuel" <> | Subject | RE: iwlwifi-driver card doesn't work with 3.19-rc2+ | Date | Tue, 30 Dec 2014 14:38:02 +0000 |
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> > On 12/30/2014 09:23 AM, Emmanuel Grumbach wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 3:33 PM, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> I just booted current Linus' tree (5faa0154fe33) on my x200s > >> thinkpad, and wifi doesn't work. iwconfig is telling me that wlan0 > >> interface has no wireless extensions. > >> > > > > So why do you used them? > > They have been deprecated for a couple of years now. You should be > > using nl80211 based tools such as iw. > > A couple of years is not very long where userspace is concerned. > Well - the decently new wireless tools do talk nl80211. You can still enable it (CFG80211_WEXT). It has been disabled by:
commit 24a0aa212ee2dbe44360288684478d76a8e20a0a Author: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Date: Fri Nov 28 12:14:06 2014 +0100
cfg80211: make WEXT compatibility unselectable
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