FS#9363 - madwifi support for AR5007EG on i686

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by name withheld (Gullible Jones) - Sunday, 27 January 2008, 20:46 GMT
Last edited by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Wednesday, 05 March 2008, 14:05 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Architecture i686
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08-2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

A patch is currently available for madwifi 0.9.3.3, which renders AR5007EG chipsets usable on x86:

madwifi-tickets@lists.sourceforge.net/msg06679.html"> http://www.mail-archive.com/madwifi-tickets@lists.sourceforge.net/msg06679.html

This patch appears to have been recently okayed by the madwifi devs; if it's still compatible with the CVS versions of the driver hosted in the Arch repos, applying it to the i686 build might be a good idea.
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Closed by  Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Wednesday, 05 March 2008, 14:05 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Wednesday, 05 March 2008, 14:05 GMT
doesn't apply to new 0.9.4 verison --> won' implement

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