Re: wifi on Motorola Droid 4 in 5.3-rc2

[Kalle Valo]

Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> 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@xxxxxx> 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@devuan:~/g/ofono$ sudo ifconfig wlan0 down
>> > user@devuan:~/g/ofono$ sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
>> > user@devuan:~/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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