MADWiFi Working on AMD64 Again

Posted by Marcus D. Hanwell on
Well they finally fixed the new MADWiFi driver to work with AMD64 again, after about two months or so of it causes a kernel oops whenever traffic was transmitted over the wireless link. I have been too busy to get a new card and so I am still using this one. Still not happy about the closed source HAL and think the reasoning behind it is flaky. It is little better than a proprietary driver, but the old driver worked and thanks to brix the new driver is in portage already and has been rekeyworded ~amd64.

Hopefully wireless in Linux will improve soon, I don't think closed source drivers are the answer though. In other news I have also brought the latest version of boinc out of package.mask to receive wider testing. It seems to be working pretty well, but still isn't as smooth as I would like. If anyone has ideas on how to improve it, or better yet patches, I would love to hear from you.

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Kim on :

KimI'm happy for you.

Sadly the latest madwifi causes KPs for me on x86.
I've "spammed" brix with the errors I got, but he must've been busy these last 2 days, because he hasn't responded much after telling me it should be a pretty straightforward upgrade from the 20050420 ebuild. In fact, that was true, the upgrade was very simple and straightforward. It just didn't work.

Three times I had to hard-reset my system before I gave up and downgraded to 20050420, which of course worked flawlessly.

So, for now I've added them to my package.mask file as:
>=net-wireless/madwifi-tools-0.1401.20060117
>=net-wireless/madwifi-driver-0.1401.20060117

Can't I define only exactly that ebuild version? Since I will not know if there is ever a newer vesion out with that mask.

Joshua Jackson on :

Joshua JacksonI'm in the same boat as kim. 20050420 is the only version to ever work for me. 1401.20060117 has craped out on me, I get a core dump on the drivers and then the kernel panics/dies a horrible horrible death.

I think I'll just set it to never allow a update again for the bloody thing.

gabriel on :

gabrielWell, I am running a MacBook (atheros chipset) with xubuntu. I picked an amd64 distribution, and it has been impossible to get wireless working. How do you do it?

Marcus D. Hanwell on :

Marcus D. HanwellI use the madwifi-ng ebuilds which are just building the madwifi-ng source. Works great and I haven't had any problems for quite some time. Should work fine on a MacBook too but I have never tried it, nor have I seriously tried to use Ubuntu on my laptop... They should have builds of it available though, I even use it with wpa_supplicant without any issues.

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