Re: wireless driver workarounds

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 08:05 -0400, Darren Albers wrote:
> 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.

I just stripped the patch out of the latest Fedora Core rawhide
packages, since the latest ndiswrapper and madwifi drivers seem to both
have (mostly) acceptable WEXT support now.  Yay, congrats to all of us
for bashing driver people in the face and making them support WEXT.

Dan


> 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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