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From: Janusz Dziedzic <janusz.dziedzic@tieto.com>
To: Bartlomiej Grzeskowiak <bartlomiej.grzeskowiak@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: WLAN drivers provided by Realtek do not work with backports (cfg80211 module not compatible)
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 12:31:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALhHN=rXuKN9YhEKo0-DVH24AcOsovCodMWMRRCX9+zRCpoO3Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADaZW1Gi0k2WjhCo+KZ=pijO2q7o9dE7fM8tTXMG8+LW=36acw@mail.gmail.com>

On 11 January 2016 at 12:02, Bartlomiej Grzeskowiak
<bartlomiej.grzeskowiak@gmail.com> wrote:
> We use 8192cu and 8811AU provided by Realtek. Our kernel is 3.10.
> We would like to add parallel support for ath10k_pci from backports.
>
> However after inserting compat.ko, cfg80211.ko and mac80211.ko from
> backports, 8192cu.ko and 8821au.ko terminate with following message:
> [  512.188364] 8192cu: Unknown symbol wiphy_new (err 0)
> [  512.188481] 8192cu: Unknown symbol cfg80211_send_disassoc (err 0)
> [  512.188554] 8192cu: Unknown symbol cfg80211_send_rx_assoc (err 0)
> [  512.188607] 8192cu: Unknown symbol cfg80211_inform_bss_frame (err 0)
>
Seems they were renamed/cleaned in patch:

cfg80211/mac80211: clean up cfg80211 SME APIs

so, newest cfg80211.ko don't have them.

Patch for 8192cu seems to be required - at least to use this new API.

BR
Janusz

> Those interfaces are exported when I load cfg80211.ko compiled from kernel 3.10.
> But I can not see them in cfg80211.ko provided by backports.
>
> Do you know this problem ?
> Is there any easy way to solve this issue ?
>
> BR
> Bartek
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-11 11:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-11 11:02 WLAN drivers provided by Realtek do not work with backports (cfg80211 module not compatible) Bartlomiej Grzeskowiak
2016-01-11 11:31 ` Janusz Dziedzic [this message]
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2016-01-11 10:56 Bartlomiej Grzeskowiak
2016-01-12  8:36 ` Johannes Berg

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