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From: Darren Kirby <bulliver@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: net-wireless/rtl8192se compile failure
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:14:28 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTik0SEvHiqekv+rBDwGP-xGDvV_mvUvv9soAFORC@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <i7spso$nvt$1@dough.gmane.org>

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 7:17 AM, walt <w41ter@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 09/27/2010 11:41 PM, Darren Kirby wrote:
>
>> error: 'struct net_device' has no member named 'wireless_handlers'
>
> struct net_device is defined in include/linux/netdevice.h, which includes
> this ifdef:
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT
>        /* List of functions to handle Wireless Extensions (instead of
> ioctl).
>         * See <net/iw_handler.h> for details. Jean II */
>        const struct iw_handler_def *   wireless_handlers;   <======== NOTE
>        /* Instance data managed by the core of Wireless Extensions. */
>        struct iw_public_data * wireless_data;
> #endif
>
> Looks like your kernel config doesn't have 'wireless extensions', maybe?

Thanks Walt,

added CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT and it worked just fine.

Cheers,
D

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-28 17:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-28  6:41 [gentoo-user] net-wireless/rtl8192se compile failure Darren Kirby
2010-09-28 13:17 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2010-09-28 17:14   ` Darren Kirby
2010-09-28 17:14   ` Darren Kirby [this message]

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