Re: Madwifi issues

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 10:40 -0300, Aloisio wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I've just joined on nm maillist. First of all congratulations! The
> design goals of project are amazing.
> Actualy I want to provide a set of deb packages to make nm works
> perfectly on ubuntu in thinkpads (and in long term, in everywhere). I
> need a solution to support madwifi and ipw drivers, leap
> authentication and everything in Ubuntu Dapper version. I have some
> questions: 
> 
> - I've noticed that the cvs version does not support madwifi drivers
> but I know that there is a workarround. I don't know why this fix is
> not integrated yet but I can imagine that you have already discussed a
> lot about it, so I want to know where you've discussed this to take a
> look (if someone want to explain me, it would be perfect). 

No, madwifi needs to support Linux Wireless Extensions correctly, not
private ioctls that no other driver supports.  We're not going to run
around supporting 50 different private driver APIs.

That said, madwifi _did_ get Wireless Extensions 19 (needed for WPA)
support a few months ago.  If you want WPA, or you want NetworkManager
to work with your driver, you need to use a fairly recent version of
madwifi, specifically madwifi-ng.

> - I'm experiencing A LOT of issues with madwifi driver, probably there
> are madwifi users here. Is the problem nm, wpa_supplicant or madwifi
> driver ? Are you prefer use ndiswrapper instead of madwifi ?

The madwifi driver has only recently supported Wireless Extensions, the
standard driver API under Linux for configuring a wireless device.  NM
requires that the device use WE.  Some vendors patch NM to use the
wpa_supplicant 'madwifi' driver for compatibility with older versions of
madwifi, but that's not supported by the NetworkManager project itself.

In any case, can you provide logs (syslog output from NM) or other
descriptions of the issues you're having?

Thanks!
Dan

> Thanks 
> 
> Aloisio Almeida
> Software Engineer
> LTC - IBM Brazil
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