On Fri, Feb 07, 2025 at 09:08:26AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > > 09:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 7(802.11be) > > AX1775*/AX1790*/BE20*/BE401/BE1750* 2x2 [8086:272b] (rev 1a) > > > > So maybe netcfg needs an update for wifi 7 ? > > Hmm, that could be. They are certainly likely to become more common in > the next few years.
So if I run iwconfig from wireless-tools (which provides the libiw that netcfg uses for wireless) I get: lo: no wireless extensions wlp9s0f0 no wireless extensions So it seems wireless-tools is entirely designed for wireless extentions, while iw and a numbet of other wifi config tools are able to use the nl80211 interface and hence work. 'iw list' provides lots of output for the interface. I wonder if any nl80211 compatible library even exists that netcfg could use. Certainly the function being called by netcfg to detected a device is wireless will not work at all on a driver that only supports nl80211, so the current behaviour is making sense. Perhaps since the new interface is netlink based, it is assumed you can just do it directly and don't need a library to wrap around things like libiw was doing. -- Len Sorensen
