On Tue, 30 Dec 2014, Emmanuel Grumbach wrote: > > I just booted current Linus' tree (5faa0154fe33) on my x200s thinkpad, and > > wifi doesn't work. iwconfig is telling me that wlan0 interface has no > > wireless extensions. > > So why do you used them? > They have been deprecated for a couple of years now. You should be > using nl80211 based tools such as iw.
My userspace wireless setup tool (wicd) is using wireless extensions, and even the most recent version uses solely that. I am pretty sure that's not the only tool in the world. > > Previous kernel that is known to work on this machine is 3.18-rc5. I > > can do a bisect if needed, but wanted to ask in case this is a known > > problem. > > 3.19 is the first kernel that actually removed the wireless extensions. That's userspace breakage I am pretty sure a LOT of people will be hitting. I don't think this fits into the way we are maintaining userspace compatibility at all. -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
