Re: feedback on attempting to build network-manager from Subversion
- From: Mark Stosberg <mark summersault com>
- Cc: networkmanager-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: feedback on attempting to build network-manager from Subversion
- Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:38:36 -0400
Dan Williams wrote:
>
> You should not be using 'madwifi' at all. It's quite old, and has been
> succeeded by madwifi-ng.
I got a different impression from reading the NetworkManager page on
recommended hardware which states:
"Old 'madwifi' driver supports unencrypted, WEP, WPA, and WPA2. Newer
'madwifi-ng' driver should also work for all network types, but has
recently been quite unstable."
I read that to say "madwifi supports everything I need and is more
stable, and therefore, preferred".
Has this part of the page become out of date?
http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManagerHardware
>> However, the fact that the problem doesn't come up using the standard
>> Ubuntu/Gnome networking tools points back to a NetworkManager issue.
>
> Only as a side-effect. You can likely get the same effect if you
> periodicially run scans from the command-line without NetworkManager
> running. It happens that NetworkManager exercises different paths in
> the driver that static command-line tools do not exercise, but that
> should work all the same. If they do not, it's a driver bug.
Thanks for the clarification.
Mark
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