WLAN: nl80211 not found

[crashmaster]

Hello,

my stick uses the "8192cu" module for wlan which works fine so far.

I wanted to use the "iw" command
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
> iw wlan0 info
nl80211 not found
> iw wlan0 link
nl80211 not found
')
Response is always "nl80211 not found".
In addition I loadad f.e. mac/cfg80211 modules but it's the same behaviour.
Is there a reason or am i missing something else?

[pepedog]

It works on the cubox. I'll look when I get time.
Cubox has older kernel, and that driver isn't cludged in. It's more puzzling it works on the cubox without that patch, or why the rpi has to be patched

[crashmaster]

crda also depends on nl80211 so it would be nice to have it.

thank you!

[pepedog]

This is interesting, on the Cubox running 3.5.7 nl80211 appeared fine, and there is no "special" patch, and I could connect.
Recently moonman and others brought dkms to light, it builds these drivers on the fly when a kernel is upgraded, or when the dkms module is installed
viewtopic.php?f=18&t=4486&start=50#p30495
So now my Cubox has the same driver as the rpi, and I get "nl80211 not found" there too.
So it's the Realtek driver at fault.

[crashmaster]

I manually inserted "cfg80211" and "nl80211" seems to be found now but the result is

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
> iw wlan0 info
command failed: No such device (-19)
')