[Madwifi-devel] MadWifi 0.9.4.1 status
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From: Pavel R. <pr...@gn...> - 2008-08-12 08:11:41
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Hello! I'm on a slow connection until August 26, but I was able to do some tests on the 0.9.4 branch as of August 6. It looks like there are some issues with WPA2 in AP mode. I was not able to connect with the b43 driver on the station side, yet the same system with the same driver can connect to a D-Link AP with WPA2 enabled. I also checked the channel switching in the trunk and DFS branch. The code in the trunk is broken. Following causes kernel panic: iwconfig ath0 channel auto iwconfig ath0 channel 1 Debugging shows that the code fails to check for a special value representing "any channel" and tries to dereference 0xfff. I think we need to write common working code shared between trunk, DFS branch and 0.9.4 branch. If it would require bringing too much DFS code to 0.9.4 branch, let's disable channel switching in 0.9.4.1. Basically, we need to decide with subset of DFS functionality we want to be in 0.9.4. I could no reproduce WEP problems in Ad-Hoc mode, so it's probably limited to the hardware I don't have with me. We need to check all bugs opened for 0.9.4. I cannot do it alone. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin |