Re: wireless driver workarounds

["Darren Albers" <dalbers gmail com>]

Olaf,

This patch is applied by vendors, can you post this as a bug to launchpad.net so that the Ubuntu Maintainer is aware of it.

Thanks,
Darren

On 5/23/06, Olaf Leidinger <leidola newcon de> wrote:

Hello Everybody!

As I can't use rt2500 with networkmanager (due the lack of wpa_supplicant-support) I tried ndiswrapper-1.2 (?) on gentoo and it works fine with networkmanager. On dapper - with ndiswrapper-1.8 - nm doesn't connect. Manually trying to run wpa_supplicant I discovered that I get a connection with my ap when NOT using -Dndiswrapper BUT -Dwext.

Back to networkmanager: I found a workaround in src/nm-device-802-11-wireless.c,

if (!strcmp (kernel_driver, "ath_pci"))
        wpa_driver = "madwifi";
else if (!strcmp (kernel_driver, "ndiswrapper"))
        wpa_driver = "ndiswrapper";
else
        wpa_driver = "wext";

which I removed (well, at least the part concerning ndiswrapper). Finally networkmanager connects fine.

BTW: Installing the source with "apt-src network-manager", the workaround isn't applied (it's in src/nm- device-802-11-wireless.c.orig). I removed the lines from src/nm-device-802-11-wireless.c.orig and copied it over to src/nm-device-802-11-wireless.c and build a package, which works fine.

Ciao,

Olaf


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