reassign 434527 madwifi-source retitle 434527 madwifi should provide complete wext support thanks
Tim Hull schrieb: > Package: network-manager > Version: 0.6.4-8 Hi Tim! > > When using a madwifi-based wireless card (with driver built from > madwifi-source 0.9.3-3 in sid), it is currently impossible to associate to > any access point using NetworkManager. NetworkManager will see the access > points, but upon attempting to associate, the lights in nm-applet never > turn > green and it eventually gives up. The card works fine when configured > manually (without using NetworkManager). My system is an up-to-date Debian With manually configured, I guess you use wpa_supplicant with -Dmadwifi? > sid/i386 installation using kernel 2.6.22-1 (from sid) and libc6 2.6-3. > > This seems somewhat related to the wpa_supplicant settings used by > network-manager, as Ubuntu's network-manager has patches which specifically > use wpa_supplicant's "madwifi" driver as opposed to its "wext" driver. > > In Ubuntu's case, NetworkManager works flawlessly on the same machine, and > installing the Ubuntu network-manager package makes it work on Debian > (though that setup has other difficulties due to the problems mixing > Debian/Ubuntu packages). > > Could a fix such as the one used in Ubuntu's case be investigated? The > patch > is part of the (big) network-manager patch on patches.ubuntu.com. This > issue is somewhat of a show-stopper in my case... > I'm reluctant to add patches to NM to workaround broken drivers. Imho it doesn't help in the long run. A much better solution is, to fix the drivers to conform to the wext spec (or in the future to mac80211), I'm thus reassigning it to madwifi-source. Please assisst the developers with your input as good as you can to fix this issue. If we don't push the driver writers, nothing will change. So a strong position is necessary imho, even if that means some inconveniences in the mean time for the users. I know this is unfortunate for your case, and I apologize for that. Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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