wireless expectations FC3T2

picomp314 picomp314 at picomp314.serveftp.net
Mon Sep 20 23:20:05 UTC 2004


I know how to get it working! You have to download a patch mentioned in 
the FAQ for the madwifi CVS, after that it works quite well indeed. The 
2.6.8.x series changed some things that the madwifi driver writers 
haven't been able to catch up to yet...




Peter wrote:
> Am Mo, den 20.09.2004 schrieb D. Stolte um 19:33:
> 
>>the acpi and interrupt problems of madwifi are history. to be fair these 
>>were problems of the early 2.6 kernels and not madwifis. i also tested
>>some cards (prism2 and prism54) and i have the best experience with the
>>netgear 511t and the madwifi driver.
> 
> 
> Well, must be a pretty "young" history. And the biggest problems
> are/were with the 2.6.8-1 kernel, I'm still using 2.6.7-1 because I
> couldn't manage to get it working.
> 
> But, I don't want to blame the madwifi project! I appreciate their
> efforts. But sometimes I have just to do my work  :-)
> 
> 
> Peter
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