Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH] ath9k: make driver usable standalone

2011-08-17 Thread Gábor Stefanik
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 5:28 AM, Pavel Ivanov paiva...@gmail.com 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

[ath9k-devel] [PATCH] ath9k: make driver usable standalone

2011-08-17 Thread Pavel Ivanov
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

Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH] ath9k: make driver usable standalone

2011-08-17 Thread Pavel Ivanov
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

[ath9k-devel] [PATCH] ath9k: fix MGMT packets when using TKIP

2011-08-17 Thread Bill Jordan
Prevent 8 bytes from being truncated from MGMT packets when using TKIP. Signed-off-by: Bill Jordan bjor...@rajant.com --- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c |3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c

Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH] ath9k: make driver usable standalone

2011-08-17 Thread Larry Finger
On 08/17/2011 05:51 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 18:25:49 +0200, Gábor Stefanik said: Iwconfig and iwlist are themselves deprecated. Iw is the new wireless configuration tool. Somebody better tell Fedora Rawhide - as of the version released on July 27, their

Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH] ath9k: fix MGMT packets when using TKIP

2011-08-17 Thread Felix Fietkau
On 2011-08-17 1:06 PM, Bill Jordan wrote: Prevent 8 bytes from being truncated from MGMT packets when using TKIP. Signed-off-by: Bill Jordanbjor...@rajant.com --- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c |3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git

Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH] ath9k: make driver usable standalone

2011-08-17 Thread 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

Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH] ath9k: make driver usable standalone

2011-08-17 Thread Adrian Chadd
Distributions? Using deprecated APIs? That's unpossible! :-) Adrian 2011/8/18 Pavel Ivanov paiva...@gmail.com: 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