On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Michael Raskin <7c6f4...@mail.ru> wrote: >>Hi Mathijs, >> >> > Is anyone still using linux 2.6.15 or 2.6.35 or 3.1 or 3.3 or 3.5 ? >> >>I'm still using 3.5. I cannot upgrade to 3.6 yet, because my wireless >>interface (iwlwifi: Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 AGN) won't work with >>the new kernel for some reason. > > iwconfig stopped working as Wireless Extensions got deprecated and > default off; iw works just fine, as does wpa_supplicant with > -Dnl80211
Ok, so this means that setting networking.wireless.driver to "nl80211" would do the trick. Peter/Rok: can you try that and confirm? If that works, should we perhaps change the default driver to nl80211 on kernel 3.6+ ? > > I agree that this is a reason to make transition period longer, I just > want to check if the problem is a known one.. > > Or anyone could commit a patch enabling deprecated legacy wireless > extensions compatibility. No guarantees about what happens in 3.7... > > > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev