Re: madwifi and NetworkManager

[Shaya Potter <spotter cs columbia edu>]

On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 10:40 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 12:35 -0500, Shaya Potter wrote:
> > so I was having problems w/ NetworkManager and my madwifi using T42p, I
> > noticed this thread
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've gotten hold of an Atheros 5212 a/b/g card now (Netgear WG511T), and
> it seems to work with some modifications that I've made so that NM waits
> a different period of time for cards that report more frequencies.  I'll
> have to do some testing to make sure that what I did was actually the
> solution to the problem (I didn't have a card to test with when I wrote
> that code), but if its OK then I'll commit.
> 
> This card works fine for me with current madwifi drivers, scanning is
> OK, connecting seems to work OK, and it generally performs well...  Stay
> tuned.

madwifi doesn't need a timeout.  just block on returning from the ioctl
call.  but that might not work well with lots of other devices.