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

[Carlos Moffat]

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