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FS#15347 - MadWiFi does not work with recent kernels.

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Andrej Podzimek (andrej) - Thursday, 02 July 2009, 18:29 GMT
Last edited by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Thursday, 02 July 2009, 19:32 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:

The current MadWifi drivers don't work. The module does not load properly and fails to activate the device.

Google mentions many cases when the error message mentioned below can be seen. However, all of those mailing list messages propose solutions that simply don't work. (For example, adding the country code to the list of module parameters should solve the problem. Apparently, this is not true.)

Additional info:

Using a vanilla kernel 2.6.29.4. (Changed kernel version to `uname -r` in PKGBUILD.)
Module command line: options ath_pci autocreate=ap countrycode=203 xchanmode=1
AFAIK, the last kernel version this worked with was something around 2.6.28.9.

* package version(s)

madwifi 0.9.4.3952-5
madwifi-utils 0.9.4.3952-1

* config and/or log files etc.

ath_pci 0000:01:06.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
MadWifi: ath_getchannels: Unable to collect channel list from HAL; regdomain likely 48 country code 203
ath_pci 0000:01:06.0: PCI INT A disabled

Steps to reproduce:

Install just about *any* version of MadWifi drivers...

* the version from current ABS with the old closed-source HAL.
* versions from SVN (madwifi-svn and madwifi-utils-svn) with the old HAL.
* versions from SVN with the new open-source HAL (whichever of them).

...and then modprobe ath_pci. It will fail.
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Closed by  Roman Kyrylych (Romashka)
Thursday, 02 July 2009, 19:32 GMT
Reason for closing:  None
Additional comments about closing:  closed on author's request
Comment by Gerhard Brauer (GerBra) - Thursday, 02 July 2009, 19:03 GMT
I could not confirm this. Here madwifi works on 2.6.30 and it worked also on any older kernel26 package.

I set countrycode in m /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf

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