Re: is /proc/net/wireless really gone?

Hi,


On Sat, 4 Jan 2025, 04:30 Onyeibo Oku, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Happy New Year everyone,
>
> I am getting an error message on my status bar (which depends on
> a manager called bumblebee-status). The message reads:
>
> [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/proc/net/wireless'
>
> This has been the case for weeks. I assumed the issue would go away
> after subsequent updates but it persists. All the while, I cannot see
> the state of my wireless connections via the status bar.
>

Yes, it has really gone, it's been deprecated since 2006.

I filed a bug report against bumblebee-status
> (https://github.com/tobi-wan-kenobi/bumblebee-status/issues/1029).
>

Bumblebee should move to using the netlink (libnl) interface for reporting
wireless status. I can provide more details on that ticket if it's needed
when I'm back at my keyboard


> The maintainer thinks my wireless driver has issues. I, therefore, failed
> a corresponding report against the driver
> (https://github.com/clnhub/rtl8192eu-linux/issues/111).
>

The rtl8192 driver was the last one using it, that driver was dropped from
the kennel recently,

According to the driver maintainer, Fedora deprecated "Wireless
> Extensions" which is responsible for "/proc/net/wireless". While the
> decision does not affect the operations of the wireless driver (because
> I am able to access the internet through the device), tools
> that query network status via "/proc/net/wireless" appear to be
> affected.
>

All the tools that are packaged in fedora have long been migrated.

I even have a related report againt the kernel
> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2334171). What is the way
> forward?
> What is the alternative to "/proc/net/wireless"?  Perhaps, someone here
> may have information that will be beneficial to the maintainers above.
>

Wireless-extensions have been deprecated since 2006, it's not properly
reported details on all sorts of things like standards like 802.11n and
newer and doesn't work at all with WiFi -7 and is due to be removed
upstream soon.

Peter

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