Does FC4 NetworkManager work with MadWiFi?

[Dan]

Philip Walden wrote:
> Philip Walden wrote:
>
>> Has anyone got FC4 NetworkManager to work with the MadWiFi driver 
>> (and a DWL-G630 card)?
>>
>> NetworkManager picks up the wired eth0 device but does not see or 
>> scan my ath0 wireless device.
>>
>> The ath0 works fine with the standard network-config, but I would 
>> like to utilize the mobility capability of NetworkManager.
>>
>> I have:
>>
>> * NetworkManager version 0.5.1-1.FC4.4
>> * kernel-module-madwifi-2.6.17-1.2141_FC4 version 0.0-0.lvn.16.20060128
>>
>> I suspect that the MadWiFi fix (http://madwifi.org/changeset/1380) 
>> for this is not in the current MadWiFi livna package as the livna 
>> package is from January and the current MadWiFi release is from May
>>
>> Anyway to find out?
>
> I found a linva bugzilla bug
>
> http://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=990
>
> and it confirms that the livna MadWiFi is broken with NetworkManager.
>
> Subcribe to this bug to find out when livna MadWiFi will work with 
> NetworkManager.
>
Is it possible for you to upgrade to FC5?
The version of NetworkManager in FC5 (0.6.x) works with madwifi fine for 
me. Possibly this version is in updates-testing, or you could grab the 
one in development and install it on FC4...would recommend upgrading 
instead of that though.
-Dan