Network Manager with madwifi drivers
Brian Anderson
bikehead at amberpoint.com
Thu Mar 9 19:14:14 UTC 2006
I use madwifi-ng from CVS. I have to say that when I downgraded to
NetworkManager-0.5.1-8 they have always worked, but never for later NM.
I have only now had success with later NM versions after removing the patch.
Dan Williams wrote:
>On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 06:13 -0800, Brian Anderson wrote:
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>>As documented in bug 180369, NetworkManager stopped connecting my
>>madwifi wireless card after the change from NetworkManager-0.5.1-8 to
>>NetworkManager-0.5.1-10. I use the CVS versions of the madwifi drivers.
>>I use WEP for authorization.
>>
>>Today I downloaded the SRPM for NetworkManager-0.6.0-2 and removed the
>>special-case-madwifi.patch and built the binary. This version of NM can
>>connect to my madwifi card. The patch is trying to work around a WPA
>>problem in the madwifi drivers. My question is has the fix for WPA
>>broken WEP?
>>
>>
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>Are you using madwifi drivers, of the madwifi-ng drivers?
>wpa_supplicant must be compiled for one or the other, and right now its
>compiled for madwifi-ng. So if you're not using madwifi-ng, NM +
>wpa_supplicant won't work for your card.
>
>In general though, madwifi-ng has been _very_ touchy, with every other
>revision of the drivers being pretty much useless. Not sure about the
>older madwifi drivers though.
>
>Dan
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