Re: Madwifi issues

["Darren Albers" <dalbers gmail com>]

On 10/2/06, Aloisio <aloisiojr gmail com> 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).
>
> - 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 ?

If you want to make a package for Ubuntu I would recommend grabbing
the source from the ubuntu package and using the patches there.  It
contains a lot of madwifi specific fixes that make life as a madwifi
user much easier and would be quicker than combing through the NM list
archives for the same thing.

Also, while Edgy is in Universe freeze it might be better to work with
the current package maintainer to update his packages (currently at
0.6.3) and try and get a UVF exception.  I am not sure how likely that
will be since it will probably require a lot of testing but it is
certainly worth a try and will avoid duplicating work...

Thanks,
Darren