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I installed compat-wireless-2011-01-25 and iwlist doesn't work but iw does. The warning dmesg shows is "cfg80211: wext will not work because kernel was compiled with CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT=n. Tools using wext interface, like iwconfig will not work." which is fine BUT my kernel is compiled with CONFIG_WIRELESS=y
CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS=y
and those are the only 2 'WIRELESS' anything.

I have kernel 2.6.36.3.

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Quoted 9 lines · On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:34:34 -0500 James wrote:

I installed compat-wireless-2011-01-25 and iwlist doesn't work but iw does. The warning dmesg shows is "cfg80211: wext will not work because kernel was compiled with CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT=n. Tools using wext interface, like iwconfig will not work." which is fine BUT my kernel is compiled with CONFIG_WIRELESS=y
CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS=y
and those are the only 2 'WIRELESS' anything.

I have kernel 2.6.36.3.

How about /WEXT/ anything?

I guess that you also have CONFIG_WEXT_CORE enabled?

I don't know about the tools issue though.

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Quoted 9 lines · James

I installed compat-wireless-2011-01-25 and iwlist doesn't work but iw does. The warning dmesg shows is "cfg80211: wext will not work because kernel was compiled with CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT=n. Tools using wext interface, like iwconfig will not work." which is fine BUT my kernel is compiled with CONFIG_WIRELESS=y
CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS=y
and those are the only 2 'WIRELESS' anything.

I have kernel 2.6.36.3.

Hi,

you have to activate CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT and nothing else to use the wext interface. You can not doe this directly in your kernel config, you have to modify the KConfig or build something that depends on CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT like ipw2200. Just set CONFIG_IPW200=m in the kernel configuration and it will also activate CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT=y

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Quoted 8 lines · James

I installed compat-wireless-2011-01-25 and iwlist doesn't work but iw does. The warning dmesg shows is "cfg80211: wext will not work because kernel was compiled with CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT=n. Tools using wext interface, like iwconfig will not work." which is fine BUT my kernel is compiled with CONFIG_WIRELESS=y
CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS=y
and those are the only 2 'WIRELESS' anything.

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I have kernel 2.6.36.3.

Hi,

you have to activate CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT and nothing else to use the wext interface. You can not doe this directly in your kernel config, you have to modify the KConfig or build something that depends on CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT like ipw2200. Just set CONFIG_IPW200=m in the kernel configuration and it will also activate CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT=y

Ah, I googled before but I never found that, thanks. I will just try to use iw. :-)