Re: [PATCH] ath9k: make driver usable standalone

[Pavel Ivanov]

> Iwconfig and iwlist are themselves deprecated. Iw is the new wireless
> configuration tool.

I've just tried to use iw and it didn't quite work for me. Maybe it's
interfering with something installed in Ubuntu by default but
connect/disconnect commands didn't seem to do anything. And why these
commands can be executed only as root?
Well, maybe in Ubuntu 11.10 it will work better.


Pavel


2011/8/17 Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d@xxxxxxxxx>:
> 2011/8/17 Pavel Ivanov <paivanof@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>> WIRELESS_EXT is not required for configuring wireless on recent
>>> kernels - in fact, the WEXT API is deprecated in favor of nl80211 now.
>>
>> Since what version it's deprecated? Do user-space tools know about this new API?
>>
>> Neither iwconfig nor iwlist worked for me without WIRELESS_EXT.
>>
>>
>> Pavel
>>
>
> Iwconfig and iwlist are themselves deprecated. Iw is the new wireless
> configuration tool.
>
>>
>> 2011/8/17 Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 5:28 AM, Pavel Ivanov <paivanof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> When ath9k is the only wireless driver included in the build
>>>> WIRELESS_EXT configuration option becomes undefined. Because of that
>>>> driver becomes essentially unusable as you can't actually connect to
>>>> any WiFi network. By including WIRELESS_EXT into Kconfig we ensure
>>>> that build with ath9k and without other drivers (having WIRELESS_EXT
>>>> selected in their Kconfig) is actually usable.
>>>
>>> WIRELESS_EXT is not required for configuring wireless on recent
>>> kernels - in fact, the WEXT API is deprecated in favor of nl80211 now.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Pavel Ivanov <paivanof@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> ---
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/Kconfig
>>>> b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/Kconfig
>>>> index d9c08c6..2573f77 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/Kconfig
>>>> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/Kconfig
>>>> @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ config ATH9K
>>>>        select LEDS_CLASS
>>>>        select NEW_LEDS
>>>>        select ATH9K_COMMON
>>>> +       select WIRELESS_EXT
>>>>        ---help---
>>>>          This module adds support for wireless adapters based on
>>>>          Atheros IEEE 802.11n AR5008, AR9001 and AR9002 family
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