On Tue, 12 May 2009, David Dreggors wrote:
Dag Wieers wrote:
On Mon, 11 May 2009, David Dreggors wrote:
Dag Wieers wrote:
Besides as far as I have tested, the madwifi solution (for newer Atheros hardware) replaces some of the other wireless infrastructure and thus breaks other wireless drivers and is impossible to package properly for RHEL/CentOS.
Was unaware of that, can you give examples of the libraries/modules that get overwritten (for rollback/restore purposes)?
The problem is not that they may or may not get overwritten, the problem is that if you have a set of modules that use the original mac80211 and cfg80211 kernel modules, and the new madwifi that use modified (newer?) mac80211 and cfg80211 modules, depending on which mac80211 and cfg80211 modules you have loaded, only one set of wireless drivers may work.
People using a USB wireless stick because they have problems with their atheros, might not get the original drivers to work because of the above mess that was created.
Well that's no good. Not sure if you got my email, I added a bug submission to upstream as you asked. They have now assigned someone to the bug.
I saw it, we need more people to test the ath5k module with their hardware and report back so it is apparent this is a general problem.