It's possible to configure a Linux kernel with nl80211 where the

SSID won't be reported, but is available via WEXT.
This is very silly, but dhcpcd still needs to work.
Thus enable both protocols and use nl80211 if WEXT fails.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 4a94e15d..eb793c52 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -432,9 +432,14 @@ EOF
 		echo "#define HAVE_NL80211_H" >>$CONFIG_H
 	else
 		echo "no"
-		echo "DHCPCD_SRCS+=	if-linux-wext.c" >>$CONFIG_MK
 	fi
 	rm -f _nl80211.c _nl80211
+
+	# Even though we have nl80211, we only use it as a fallback
+	# because it's currently possible to configure a kernel
+	# where the SSID associated to won't be reported by nl80211
+	# but will be via WEXT.
+	echo "DHCPCD_SRCS+=	if-linux-wext.c" >>$CONFIG_MK
 fi
 
 abort=false