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.