Re: [blfs-dev] wireless tools

2017-03-15 Thread Richard Melville
On 15 March 2017 at 18:06, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > We are looking at a new package, https://www.kernel.org/pub/sof > tware/network/iw/iw-4.9.tar.xz. This only produces a single executable: > iw. It does not produce a library. > > It does provides functionality similar to

Re: [blfs-dev] Wireless Tools and CardBus

2014-10-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: Looking at the Wireless Tools page, I read: For many laptops, the PCMCIA bus (CONFIG_PCCARD) needs to be built. In some cases, this bus support will also need to be built for embedded wireless cards. The appropriate bridge support also needs to be built. For many modern

Re: [blfs-dev] Wireless Tools and CardBus

2014-10-02 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 11:10:02AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: To me, in 2014, a _modern_ laptop is extremely unlikely to be using PCMCIA or YENTA. Or am I, again, totally mistaken ? I can see that PCCARD _might_ be needed for machines without PCMCIA, but I do not have

Re: [blfs-dev] Wireless Tools and CardBus

2014-10-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 11:10:02AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: To me, in 2014, a _modern_ laptop is extremely unlikely to be using PCMCIA or YENTA. Or am I, again, totally mistaken ? I can see that PCCARD _might_ be needed for machines without PCMCIA, but