Re: How can I enable NET_WIRELESS?

From: Adrian Bunk
Date: Sat Aug 19 2006 - 10:51:14 EST


On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 08:40:50PM +0800, Kun Niu wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I'm sorry for the silly questoin.
> My kernel version is 2.6.17
> But I've just installed the 802.11 stack on my Debian 3.1.
> But I got that the module can't find some external module:
> WARNING:
> /lib/modules/2.6.17-5/kernel/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac.ko
> needs unknown symbol wireless_send_event
> WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.17-5/kernel/net/ieee80211/ieee80211.ko needs
> unknown symbol wireless_spy_update
> And I think that I'll have to install the NET_WIRELESS module.
> But I can't find it.
> When I look for wireless in menuconfig of the kernel, I found that
> NET_WIRELESS=n.
>
> Would anyone be kind enough telling how to enable NET_WIRELESS?

Please send your .config .

> Thanks in advance.

cu
Adrian

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