On Tue, 2014-12-30 at 16:21 +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Tue, 30 Dec 2014, Grumbach, Emmanuel wrote: > > > > > 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. > > With 3.18-rc5, I get this: > > # iwconfig --version > iwconfig Wireless-Tools version 30 > Compatible with Wireless Extension v11 to v22. > > Kernel Currently compiled with Wireless Extension v22. > > wlan0 Recommend Wireless Extension v21 or later, > Currently compiled with Wireless Extension v22. > > > With 3.19-rc, I get (with the same userspace) this: > > # iwconfig --version > iwconfig Wireless-Tools version 30 > Compatible with Wireless Extension v11 to v22. > > Cannot read /proc/net/wireless > > And nothing else (iwlist, etc) works either. This is with > > # rpm -qi wireless-tools | grep Ver > Version : 30.pre9 > > from openSUSE 13.2. That's not decently new enough? >
You should also have the iw tool which will provide all you need using the nl80211 interface which is now the preferred interface. > > You can still enable it (CFG80211_WEXT). > > It has been disabled by: > > > > commit 24a0aa212ee2dbe44360288684478d76a8e20a0a > > Author: Johannes Berg <johannes.b...@intel.com> > > Date: Fri Nov 28 12:14:06 2014 +0100 > > > > cfg80211: make WEXT compatibility unselectable > > I think this needs to be reverted. >
