I've been running into an annoying kernel panic with madwifi 0.9.4 and
thought I'd give the trunk a try. I'm using a MIPS processor (Au1550)
with 2.6.24. I ran into the 'Branch out of range' compile problem and
had to add '-ffunction-sections' to get if_ath.c to compile.

r3773 manages to connect to the network (WPA2-AES) but the performance
is really horrible (<145KBps vs >2MBps with 0.9.4). athstats shows a
huge number of 'long on-chip tx retries' and a large number of 'tx
failed due to too many retries' errors. The antenna profile shows a
very small number of tx packets and an approximately correct number of
rx packets (by looking at /proc/net/dev).
/proc/net/madwifi/ath0/rate_info (minstrel) shows many attempts but a
very small (or zero) number of successes.

Another weird thing is that the MAC address isn't getting changed
correctly. For example, I try and set it to 00:18:08:80:00:6B and it
ends up 06:18:08:80:00:6B (the first byte is wrong). I'm setting it by
destroying ath0, bringing wifi0 down, setting the address and then
bringing things back up.

Has anyone had any luck with recent trunks or can recommend a revision
that might work a little better?

                      Thanks,
                      Clem

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