[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#489920: Bug#489920: madwifi no longer supported, ath_pci doesn't work anymore

[Kel Modderman]

On Wednesday 09 July 2008 03:40:24 martin f krafft wrote:
> Package: wpasupplicant
> Version: 0.6.3-2
> Severity: important
> 
> wpa_supplicant: "madwifi" wpa-driver is unsupported
> wpa_supplicant: using "wext" wpa-driver instead ...
> 
> ath5k is not yet a replacement for ath_pci, which is the most
> reliable way to talk to madwifi cards. It does not implement wext
> though, so wpa_supplicant has become unusable with Atheros chips.

Where do you get your information from? Madwifi and ath5k support the
WEXT backend, it just so happens that ath5k doesn't work at all very well yet.

The reason to drop madwifi private backend is discussed here:
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-wpa-devel/2008-May/001692.html

I suspect this is a duplicate of #487585. Please confirm, so that the bug
reports may be merged.

Thanks, Kel.