Bug#385599: madwifi-source: Problem is with 1587 and 1687

[Kel Modderman]

On Monday 04 September 2006 00:28, Carlos Moffat wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 16:06 +0200, Loïc Minier wrote:
> >         Hi,
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 03, 2006, Carlos Moffat wrote:
> > > I have two interfaces coming up: wifi0 and ath0. Both are up, as far as
> > > I can tell. Both have the same name regardless of what version of the
> > > driver I used.
> >
> >  You will probably see once of the interfaces having a longer HWaddr in
> >  ifconfig -a output, probably ending in "00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00", you
> >  should run dhclient on the other interface.
> >
> >  If this fail, could you please send your dmesg output on module
> >  loading?
> >
> >    Thanks,
>
> Here it is. The interface you talk about is called 'wifi0' in my
> machine.
>
> Thanks a lot for your help.

There are a few nasty issues concerning association (or lack of) reported to 
the madwifi.org trac system [1,2]. The fact that you reported the use of 
NetworkManager suggests to me that this may be related to the introduction of 
the WEXT ioctl's for use with wpa_supplicant (this changed slightly around 
r1527 or so).

When NetwrokManager is active, isn't every interface under its control "bound" 
by a wpa_supplicant process? Therefore running dhclient manually while 
NetworkManager subsystem is still active may never succeed.

Just my 2c, I hope these showstopping issues get ironed out of madwifi very 
soon . . .

Thanks, Kel.

[1] http://madwifi.org/ticket/776
[2] http://madwifi.org/ticket/698