Your message dated Wed, 30 Mar 2011 04:29:21 +0100 with message-id <1301455761.10056.67.camel@localhost> and subject line Re: Bug#620101: linux-source-2.6.38: CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT can only be enabled by CONFIG_HOSTAP has caused the Debian Bug report #620101, regarding linux-source-2.6.38: CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT can only be enabled by CONFIG_HOSTAP to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: linux-source-2.6.38 Version: 2.6.38-1 Severity: wishlist I tried to compile "wl" with "m-a a-i broadcom-sta" and the error message told me: "WIRELESS_EXT is not defined" After "make menuconfig" i searched for it, got redirected, but could not enable WIRELESS_EXT. Finally i found the solution here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-824309-start-0.html I made a thread with more info here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/m-a-a-i-broadcom- sta-871533/ -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-localmodconfig-1 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages linux-source-2.6.38 depends on: ii binutils 2.20.1-16 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii bzip2 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting file co Versions of packages linux-source-2.6.38 recommends: ii gcc 4:4.5.2-2 The GNU C compiler ii libc6-dev [libc-dev] 2.11.2-11 Embedded GNU C Library: Developmen ii make 3.81-8 An utility for Directing compilati Versions of packages linux-source-2.6.38 suggests: ii kernel-package 12.036+nmu1 A utility for building Linux kerne ii libncurses5-dev [ncurses- 5.7+20100313-5 developer's libraries and docs for pn libqt3-mt-dev <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 05:13 +0200, markus tornow wrote: > Package: linux-source-2.6.38 > Version: 2.6.38-1 > Severity: wishlist > > I tried to compile "wl" with "m-a a-i broadcom-sta" and the error message told > me: > "WIRELESS_EXT is not defined" > After "make menuconfig" i searched for it, got redirected, but could not > enable > WIRELESS_EXT. > Finally i found the solution here: > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-824309-start-0.html > > I made a thread with more info here: > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/m-a-a-i-broadcom- > sta-871533/ I suspect you actually want WEXT_CORE, which is enabled if either WIRELESS_EXT or CFG80211_WEXT are enabled. You can directly enable CFG80211_WEXT. Anyway, if your custom configuration breaks out-of-tree modules, that is really your problem - not a bug. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.signature.asc
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