[Nix-dev] end-of-life kernels

[Mathijs Kwik]

On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Michael Raskin <7c6f434c at mail.ru> wrote:
>>Hi Mathijs,
>>
>> > Is anyone still using linux 2.6.15 or 2.6.35 or 3.1 or 3.3 or 3.5 ?
>>
>>I'm still using 3.5. I cannot upgrade to 3.6 yet, because my wireless
>>interface (iwlwifi: Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 AGN) won't work with
>>the new kernel for some reason.
>
> iwconfig stopped working as Wireless Extensions got deprecated and
> default off; iw works just fine, as does wpa_supplicant with
> -Dnl80211

Ok, so this means that setting networking.wireless.driver to
"nl80211" would do the trick.

Peter/Rok: can you try that and confirm?
If that works, should we perhaps change the default driver to nl80211
on kernel 3.6+ ?

>
> I agree that this is a reason to make transition period longer, I just
> want to check if the problem is a known one..
>
> Or anyone could commit a patch enabling deprecated legacy wireless
> extensions compatibility. No guarantees about what happens in 3.7...
>
>
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