linux-kernel - Re: wifi on Motorola Droid 4 in 5.3-rc2

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Message-ID: <87h86elgaa.fsf@tynnyri.adurom.net>
Date:   Sun, 18 Aug 2019 17:06:05 +0300
From:   Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>
To:     Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Cc:     Michael Nazzareno Trimarchi <michael@...rulasolutions.com>,
        kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Linux OMAP Mailing List <linux-omap@...r.kernel.org>,
        Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>,
        Sebastian Reichel <sre@...nel.org>, nekit1000@...il.com,
        mpartap@....net, Merlijn Wajer <merlijn@...zup.org>,
        "open list\:TI WILINK WIRELES..." <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: wifi on Motorola Droid 4 in 5.3-rc2

Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> writes:

> On Sun 2019-08-18 12:53:01, Michael Nazzareno Trimarchi wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 12:46 PM Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi!
>> >
>> > First, I guess I should mention that this is first time I'm attempting
>> > to get wifi going on D4.
>> >
>> > I'm getting this:
>> >
>> > user@...uan:~/g/ofono$ sudo ifconfig wlan0 down
>> > user@...uan:~/g/ofono$ sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
>> > user@...uan:~/g/ofono$ sudo iwlist wlan0 scan
>> > wlan0     Interface doesn't support scanning.
>> >
>> 
>> Try to use iw command. iwlist use an obsolete interface that you need
>> to activate in kernel for back compatibility with old command. Can be
>> your problem?
>
> Let me see ... CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT was not set.
>
> Tried enabling it, and now I got. I remember getting it before,
> too... let me try few more boots, perhaps it is random.

>From developers' point of view WEXT is ancient and untested, everybody
should switch to nl80211. So I strongly using iw (which uses nl80211).
Of course this nothing to do with the wlcore warning you saw, just
wanted to make you aware the state of wireless extensions.

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