On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 18:40 +0000, Jonathan McDowell wrote: > Package: madwifi-source > Version: 1:0.9.2+r1842.20061207-2 > Severity: important > > Recent versions of madwifi-source appear to no longer work with > network-manager; it can see the networks fine but is unable to associate > with them. If I disable network manager and configure manually with > iwconfig things work fine. > > The last version I have that works fine is > madwifi-modules-2.6.18_0.svnr1644.0.9.0-2. I have also tried: > > madwifi-modules-2.6.18_0.9.2+r1710.20060914-1 > madwifi-modules-2.6.18_0.9.2+r1784.20061027-1 > madwifi-modules-2.6.18_0.9.2+r1809.20061115-1 > madwifi-modules-2.6.18_0.9.2+r1842.20061207-1 > > All built against 2.6.18 obviously. > > I have also tried the 0.9.2.1 release direct from Madwifi, so this > appears to be an upstream bug. Others seem to be affected; there is a > thread on madwifi-user at: > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.madwifi.user/11870/ > > (I have cc'd Carlos to this bug report as his report was the only one I > could find, but there was no indication of it in the Debian bug > database). > > There is also an upstream bug at: > > http://madwifi.org/ticket/1030 > > I am filing the Debian bug because that is the first place I looked for > information and I feel it would be useful to have mention of the issue > there. Also as an additional datapoint my home network is WEP connected > and wpa_supplicant still doesn't work (the upstream bug talks about > non-encrypted networks). > > Finally my hardware is the internal Atheros card in my Toshiba R200 > laptop. lspci / lspci -n give: > > 02:05.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg > NIC (rev 01) > 02:05.0 0200: 168c:0013 (rev 01) > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 4.0 > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (500, 'testing') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > Kernel: Linux 2.6.19 > Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > > Versions of packages madwifi-source depends on: > ii bzip2 1.0.3-6 high-quality block-sorting file > co > ii debhelper 5.0.42 helper programs for debian/rules > ii module-assistant 0.10.8 tool to make module package > creati > > madwifi-source recommends no packages. > > -- no debconf information >
Hi Jonathan, The problem I'm seeing is 'solved' if you revert patch r1664[1] or if you do: iwpriv ath0 mode 3. I'm not sure what does the iwpriv command do, but at least I can connect to non-encrypted networks. Cheers, Carlos [1]http://madwifi.org/changeset/1664 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
