Re: Wireless support accidentally dropped in 2.1 kernel?

David S. Miller (davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com)
Mon, 22 Dec 1997 21:52:43 -0800


Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 00:18:14 -0500
From: tytso@mit.edu

Sometime around 2.1.70 or so, a block of code got dropped from
drivers/net/Config.in, which caused support for wireless ethernet
cards (most notably for me, Wavelan support) to be dropped.

I'm fairly sure this was an accident, since restoring the block in
drivers/net/Config.in allowed the Wireless support to work
flawlessly.

Please don't apply this patch as is. The soundmodem and other radio
network drivers now have their own sub-directories under drivers/net
and also their own Config.in files as well.

Granted the wavelan stuff was removed probably unintentionally, but
the rest of your patch is incorrect as I just described.

Alan can probably work out the details here.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com