From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Michael Nazzareno Trimarchi <michael@amarulasolutions.com>,
mpartap@gmx.net, Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>,
Merlijn Wajer <merlijn@wizzup.org>,
"open list:TI WILINK WIRELES..." <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>,
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Linux OMAP Mailing List <linux-omap@vger.kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: wifi on Motorola Droid 4 in 5.3-rc2
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2019 17:06:05 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h86elgaa.fsf@tynnyri.adurom.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190818114332.GA32205@amd> (Pavel Machek's message of "Sun, 18 Aug 2019 13:43:32 +0200")
Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> writes:
> On Sun 2019-08-18 12:53:01, Michael Nazzareno Trimarchi wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 12:46 PM Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi!
>> >
>> > First, I guess I should mention that this is first time I'm attempting
>> > to get wifi going on D4.
>> >
>> > I'm getting this:
>> >
>> > user@devuan:~/g/ofono$ sudo ifconfig wlan0 down
>> > user@devuan:~/g/ofono$ sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
>> > user@devuan:~/g/ofono$ sudo iwlist wlan0 scan
>> > wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
>> >
>>
>> Try to use iw command. iwlist use an obsolete interface that you need
>> to activate in kernel for back compatibility with old command. Can be
>> your problem?
>
> Let me see ... CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT was not set.
>
> Tried enabling it, and now I got. I remember getting it before,
> too... let me try few more boots, perhaps it is random.
From developers' point of view WEXT is ancient and untested, everybody
should switch to nl80211. So I strongly using iw (which uses nl80211).
Of course this nothing to do with the wlcore warning you saw, just
wanted to make you aware the state of wireless extensions.
--
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-18 10:46 wifi on Motorola Droid 4 in 5.3-rc2 Pavel Machek
2019-08-18 10:53 ` Michael Nazzareno Trimarchi
2019-08-18 11:43 ` Pavel Machek
2019-08-18 12:43 ` Michael Nazzareno Trimarchi
2019-08-19 9:24 ` Pavel Machek
2019-08-18 14:06 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2019-08-19 9:19 ` Pavel Machek
2019-08-18 11:46 ` Pavel Machek
2019-08-18 12:45 ` Michael Nazzareno Trimarchi
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