madwifi-driver_0.1_pre20050809 & 20050906 timeout errors!?

scoobydu · Last edited by scoobydu on Tue Sep 06, 2005 6:29 pm; edited 1 time in total

Been using the previous version of madwifi drivers now for a month or so on my powerbook 5,6.using WG511T

Just insalled the above update and only get timeouts now

:-/

No config changes at all.

wpa_supplicant -c /etc/wpasupplicant.conf -D madwifi -i ath0 -dd

gives me;

ioctl[IEEE80211_IOCTL_SETMLME]: Bad Address (line after line)

Whatever that means

tia

btw tried going back to the previous drivers, but that doesn't work, same timeout. Also rebooted AP, with no effect.
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RayDude · Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 2:17 am Post subject:

Same problem here. My only update and now wifi is dead...

The old version is dead as well. What the heck changed?

Raydude
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ph03n1x · l33t Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Posts: 754

I always had problems with my AP and mad-wifi that's why I'm using my old orinoco here.

Now back to your problem. You might want to try the cvs version of the driver which is usually newer. If you're sure it's not a gentoo problem you could have a look at: http://madwifi.sourceforge.net/

There's a mailinglist, irc, ...

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chrb · n00b Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 19

Another "me too".

Please post your comments and findings on bug #102104

RayDude · Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 11:54 pm Post subject:

The problem is that wpa_supplicant needs to be compiled with the mad-wifi headers... Currently the ebuild calls out the old CVS version...

Someone is working to fix things.

For those who want the work around without reading the bug report...

Cinder6 · l33t Joined: 04 Aug 2004 Posts: 767 Location: California

weird...having no problems on my system with my Netgear WG311T.
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mwiertz · Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 3:18 am Post subject:

Same problem here,
used a same solution as RayDude to get the old driver working again...

jamapii · Guru Joined: 16 Sep 2004 Posts: 392

Thanks for the warning!

I often do a "quickpkg <package>" if I don't trust it, so I can revert to the old package with "emerge --usepkgonly ..."

scoobydu · Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 5:17 am Post subject:

Well r1 of madwifi and 0.4.4 wpa_supplicant still doesn't work for me! anyone else?
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mwiertz · Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 3:22 pm Post subject:

well, for me

net-wireless/madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20050420-r1 and
net-wireless/wpa_supplicant-0.4.4

do work... so maybe you are running into a different problem...

post some more details...

RayDude · Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 1:00 am Post subject:

scoobydu · Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 3:57 am Post subject:

RayDude · Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 2:50 pm Post subject:

scoobydu · Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 5:38 pm Post subject:

Arh I see yes, your version works fine for me too, now with supplicant 0.4.4.

The problem is the new version, see first post

edit: Couldn't be fussed with debugging this, so tried the latest cvs snapshot, madwifi-driver_0.1_pre20050906 and it compiles and installs fine, but gives me the same problem.

I'll check on madwifi forums to see if the config has changed or something .....
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mthalmei · n00b Joined: 02 Jan 2005 Posts: 11 Location: Salzburg

I had the same problem with the latest madwifi driver.

Reading the madwifi project page and the newest INSTALL in madwifi cvs http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/madwifi/madwifi/INSTALL?view=markup I tried to load both crypto modules (md5 and aes_i586). And guess what ?

It works now

so this is my configuration:
gentoo-sources-2.6.13-r3
wpa_supplicant-0.4.4
madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20050809-r1

loaded modules (in /etc/modules.autoload/kernel.2.6):
md5
aes_i586
ath_pci

As the INSTALL document states that an internal AES algorithm is choosen if the kernel module is not found I con only guess that there is something wrong with this internal code.