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

[Carlos Moffat]

On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 08:09 +1000, Kel Modderman wrote:
> 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

Good call! I didn't realize before dhclient wouldn't work if
NetworkManager was active. I can get an IP address from dhclient if I
kill NetworkManager (/etc/init.d/dbus stop, the only way I know to do
that :) ).

What's funny is that I need to remove and reinsert the ath_pci module to
make it work. 

Cheers,
Carlos


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