FS#9802 - madwifi-0.9.4-1 breaks wireless on macbook pro

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Varun Acharya (ganja_guru) - Monday, 10 March 2008, 03:26 GMT
Last edited by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Thursday, 13 March 2008, 17:37 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Alexander Baldeck (kth5)
Architecture x86_64
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08-2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:
The recent update broke the wireless on my macbook pro. iwconfig returns no wireless extensions with the new drivers. A revert back to the old drivers solved the problem.

Additional info:
* madwifi-0.9.4-1 madwifi-utils-0.9.4-2

Steps to reproduce:
Update madwifi, unload and reload modules or reboot, and run iwconfig.
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Closed by  Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Thursday, 13 March 2008, 17:37 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by crc32 (crc64) - Thursday, 13 March 2008, 15:49 GMT
We should revert to the madwifi SVN trunk builds.
The 0.9.4 release is based on the 0.9.3.3 branch rather than trunk.

Below info taken from http://madwifi.org/wiki/Releases/0.9.4
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Please note that this release is not based on trunk. We have decided to make a release based on v0.9.3.3 with backported changes from trunk instead. Trunk needs a bit more work to get stabilized, while release of kernel 2.6.24 demanded for a new MadWifi release.

This also means that v0.9.4 still has no support for AR5007 (EeePC) and AR5008 (MacBook) chipsets. An experimental patch that adds AR5007 support at least for i386 (32bit) is attached to ticket #1679, while legacy AR5008 support for all platforms that MadWifi runs on is available in trunk.

Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Thursday, 13 March 2008, 17:37 GMT
fixed with latest drivers from testing

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