Bug#403933: madwifi-source: no longer works with network-manager/wpa_supplicant

[Jonathan McDowell]

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