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. -- -- dag wieers, dag at centos.org, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]