[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#498478: Bug#498478: network-manager: rely on deprecated CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS kernel option for wireless cards

[Michael Biebl]

Vincent Danjean wrote:
> Package: network-manager
> Version: 0.6.6-2
> Severity: important
> 
>   Hi,
> 
>   Since a few days, kernel maintainers have disabled the (uptream) deprecated
> kernel option CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS (look at the current
> linux-image-2.6.27-rc5-amd64 in the Debian kernel team repo).
>   When I use this kernel, my wireless card (Intel 4965 AG) is seen as a wired
> connection by network-manager (iwconfig or iwlist work perfectly). So, I think
> that network-manager rely on this deprecated kernel option to detect wireless
> cards.
> 
>   This will need to be fixed quickly after lenny (when the kernel team will
> upload 2.6.27 in sid) in order not to break network-manager for all wifi users
> [if my analyse if correct, of course]
> 
>   This bug does not concern lenny as CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS is set in
> lenny's kernels.
> 

Could you please send me a lshal dump.
I suspect that hal is the real culprit and info.capabilities no longer
has net.80211.

Cheers,
Michael


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