Re: [Madwifi-users] 80211 support

[John C. <jc...@me...>]

Dimitris Kogias schrieb:

>>>There's a kernel config symbol, CONFIG_IEEE80211, which I've never set...
>>>
>>>John Clark
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>That the common ieee80211 stack used by ipw2x00 and a collection of
>>other in kernel wifi modules. Not required to use madwifi, as it
>>contains it s own 80211 layer derived from freebsd's stack.
>>
>>Thanks, Kel.
>>    
>>
>
>Yup, madwifi needs CONFIG_NET_RADIO.  From INSTALL:
>
>o Wireless Extensions support (14 or later, 17 preferred) - option
>  CONFIG_NET_RADIO in kernel .config file.
>  
>

That's the only one in my config as well... in fact, until the question 
came up, and I looked, I
didn't even 'know' about the config file symbol, and it als seems not to 
be in earlier versions of
the kernel.

John Clark