Gmane
From: Pavel Roskin <proski <at> gnu.org>
Subject: MadWifi 0.9.4.1 status
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.drivers.madwifi.devel
Date: 2008-08-12 08:11:36 GMT (21 weeks, 3 days, 19 hours and 43 minutes ago)
Hello!

I'm on a slow connection until August 26, but I was able to do some  
tests on the 0.9.4 branch as of August 6.  It looks like there are  
some issues with WPA2 in AP mode.  I was not able to connect with the  
b43 driver on the station side, yet the same system with the same  
driver can connect to a D-Link AP with WPA2 enabled.

I also checked the channel switching in the trunk and DFS branch.  The  
code in the trunk is broken.  Following causes kernel panic:

iwconfig ath0 channel auto
iwconfig ath0 channel 1

Debugging shows that the code fails to check for a special value  
representing "any channel" and tries to dereference 0xfff.

I think we need to write common working code shared between trunk, DFS  
branch and 0.9.4 branch.  If it would require bringing too much DFS  
code to 0.9.4 branch, let's disable channel switching in 0.9.4.1.   
Basically, we need to decide with subset of DFS functionality we want  
to be in 0.9.4.

I could no reproduce WEP problems in Ad-Hoc mode, so it's probably  
limited to the hardware I don't have with me.

We need to check all bugs opened for 0.9.4.  I cannot do it alone.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin

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