[Nix-dev] end-of-life kernels

[Rok Garbas]

Quoting Mathijs Kwik (2012-11-18 18:39:59)
> 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+ ?
> 

works for me.


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