Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with madwifi

[Jonathan Wright <mail@djnauk.co.uk>]

Robert Crawford wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 August 2005 11:28 am, Grant wrote:
> 
>>>>Which updates are you talking about-
>>>
>>>madwifi, it was updated some days ago, to be exact, version
>>>0.1_pre20050809 released on 2005/08/10 12:44:19, while previously I was
>>>using
>>>0.1_pre20050420.
>>
>>If downgrading to 20050420 doesn't work, try upgrading to the latest
>>baselayout.  An older baselayout triggers the problem for me.
>>
>>- Grant
> 
> 
> 
> Hmmmm.  I'm running ~x86 systems, and just synced yesterday, so I must be 
> about as current as possible. I've had no problems with wifi.
> 
> UPDATE: Seems I'm still using  0.1_pre20050420, so apparently yesterday's ~x86 
> sync and -uD world didn't pull in  0.1_pre20050809. 

I've had the same problem here; using a 3com OfficeConnect (3CXJK10075 I 
think). I've just rebuild my laptop and used 0.1_pre20050809 and it 
didn't work.

I tried different kernel settings, different versions of madwifi-driver 
and madwifi-tools, along with wireless-tools and wpa_supplicant. In the 
end I had to remove all the modules (rm -Rf /lib/modules) and reinstall 
all the modules before rebuilding wireless-tools, madwifi-driver, 
madwifi-tools in that order.

- -----
* net-wireless/madwifi-driver
      Available versions:  ~0.1_pre20050107 ~0.1_pre20050224
                           ~0.1_pre20050420 ~0. 1_pre20050809
      Installed:           0.1_pre20050420
      Homepage:            http://madwifi.sourceforge.net/
      Description:         Wireless driver for Atheros chipset a/b/g
                           cards

* net-wireless/madwifi-tools
      Available versions:  ~0.1_pre20050106 *0.1_pre20050107
                           ~0.1_pre20050420
      Installed:           0.1_pre20050420
      Homepage:            http://madwifi.sourceforge.net/
      Description:         Wireless tools for Atheros chipset a/b/g cards

* net-wireless/wireless-tools
      Available versions:  27-r1 ~28_pre8-r1
      Installed:           28_pre8-r1
      Homepage:            http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourr..
      Description:         A collection of tools to configure IEEE 802.11
                           wireless LAN cards

* net-wireless/wpa_supplicant
      Available versions:  0.3.8-r1 ~0.3.9-r1 ~0.4.3-r1
      Installed:           0.3.8-r1
      Homepage:            http://hostap.epitest.fi/wpa_supplicant/
      Description:         IEEE 802.1X/WPA supplicant for secure wireless
                           transfers

- -----

Everything seams to be working fine now :)

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Jonathan Wright <mail at djnauk.co.uk>
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