dhcpcd-discuss

Re: Wireless interface metric not being set as described in man

Roy Marples

Wed Sep 10 02:05:07 2014

Hi Joe

On 2014-09-08 15:59, Joe M wrote:
Thanks for the quick response.

I'm going to guess that you don't have WEXT support compiled into your
kernel :)

zcat /proc/config.gz | grep --color --ignore-case wext
# CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT is not set

Yes, you are correct. I do not have WEXT compiled into the kernel.

I get this issue reported from time to time.
I get bored of it so I bloated dhcpcd by another 600 bytes on Linux so that we can get the SSID via the shiny nl80211 interface.
http://roy.marples.name/projects/dhcpcd/ci/0bad0685a9eb27ffbf84b7d26b483f3bb0d567a0?sbs=0

If anyone can test it to ensure I've not broken anything, that would be ace.

Thanks

Roy

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