Re: [Madwifi-users] Needed: Beta Testers for Madwifi-BSD Branch

[Mike D. <mik...@nr...>]

On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 03:38:56 -0500
Sebastian Weitzel <to...@to...> wrote:

> Before it can be declared stable there has of course extensive testing
> to be done. The branch looks pretty stable on my testplattform, arm
> xscale-be with kernel 2.4. I think we still need testers for more
> exotic plattforms like i386 with kernel 2.4 and 2.6. also.

I have one of those 'exotic' i386 with kernel 2.4.28 systems.
> 
> I still have to update the readme in the branch to include a list of
> supported features for those who wonder. I will do this next week
> probably.

Yeah, I am wondering. 
> 
> If anyone likes, please try the bsd branch. Please post bugs to this
> mailinglist as we dont have a bugzilla yet. You could checkout with
> 
> cvs -d:pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/madwifi login
> and
> cvs -z3 -d:pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/madwifi co
> -r BSD -P madwifi
> 
I downloaded the BSD branch last night.  It compiles and installs fine
on my system- Gateway Solo laptop with a 400 Mhz Celeron running
Slackware 10.0.  The wireless card is a D-Link G650 and I connect to a
D-Link wireless router DI-624 using WEP.

The BSD brach driver seems to work just the same as the madwifi that I
downloaded from CVS 1 Jan 2005.  The only difference is that iwconfig
reports txpower: 17 dBm instead of 50 dBm.  But I could not change that
with a iwconfig command.

The speed of ftp file transfer from another computer (wired ethernet
card) on my home network is 2.0 MBytes/sec with both drivers.  That's
about 16 Mbit/sec compared to the connection speed that iwconfig reports
of 54 Mb/s.  I don't know if this is good or bad.  I do get the number
of frame errors reported by ifconfig to be roughly 10% of the total Rx
packets (I was up loading).  This was the same for both versions of the
driver.

Mike