netdev - [PATCH] mac80211_hwsim: suggest nl80211 instead of wext driver in documentation

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Date:   Mon, 17 Oct 2016 00:39:33 +0200
From:   Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@...3.blue>
To:     linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
        Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
        Jouni Malinen <j@...fi>
Cc:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@...3.blue>
Subject: [PATCH] mac80211_hwsim: suggest nl80211 instead of wext driver in documentation

For mac80211_hwsim interfaces, suggest to use wpa_supplicant with the more
modern, netlink based driver instead of wext.

Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@...3.blue>
---

Actually, I wasn't even able to make a connection with the configuration
files and information provided in
Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/{README,hostapd.conf/wpa_supplicant.conf}

Changing -Dwext to -Dnl80211 helped and made the WPA-PSK connection with
mac80211_hwsim interfaces work for me.
---
 Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/README | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/README b/Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/README
index 24ac91d..3566a72 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/README
+++ b/Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/README
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ modprobe mac80211_hwsim
 hostapd hostapd.conf
 
 # Run wpa_supplicant (station) for wlan1
-wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan1 -c wpa_supplicant.conf
+wpa_supplicant -Dnl80211 -iwlan1 -c wpa_supplicant.conf
 
 
 More test cases are available in hostap.git:
-- 
2.1.4