Bug#494751: madwifi-source: fails with AR2413 on Linux 2.6.25-2-686

[Yann Vernier]

Package: madwifi-source
Version: 1:0.9.4+r3772.20080716-1
Severity: important

This package of madwifi does not work on my system. I'm using a stock
Debian kernel and hostapd, but even manually bringing it up in adhoc
mode fails. The interface appears, but no beacons ever occur; other
devices never see the atheros equipped machine.

An error shows up in dmesg, stating:
[2171794.419413] wifi0: ath_bstuck_tasklet: Stuck beacon; resetting (beacon miss count: 11)

I downloaded upstream v0.9.4, following links on madwifi.org, and that
works fine. I'm not sure how the Debian package differs.

lspci output:
00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR2413 802.11bg NIC (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Atheros Communications Inc. Device 1052
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 11
        Memory at c3000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: ath_pci
        Kernel modules: ath5k, ath_pci

(Not using ath5k as it does not appear to support AP mode.)


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=sv_SE.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages madwifi-source depends on:
ii  bzip2                         1.0.5-0.1  high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  debhelper                     7.0.15     helper programs for debian/rules
ii  module-assistant              0.10.11.0  tool to make module package creati

madwifi-source recommends no packages.

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