Re: [Madwifi-devel] AR5424 mini pci express freezes under 0.9.4 ahdemo mode.

[Pavel R. <pr...@gn...>]

On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 20:36 -0400, Devesh Agrawal wrote:

> I am using the stock Madwifi-0.9.4 on Intel Mac mini's having the default
> airport AR5BXB6 mini pci-e card. The Atheros chipset being used is 5424. I am
> using the 2.6.28.6 kernel with SMP disabled. (thus there is only one
> processor active out of the two).
...
> PS: I tried the latest madwifi svn checkout and my card dies immediately after
> I enable 802.11a with 'iwpriv ath0 mode 11a'. So I am unable to recreate this
> problem with the latest svn checkout.

I believe it's fixed in the current trunk and the current 0.9.4 branch.

MadWifi doesn't change the bit rate when switching to another band.  The
old rate can be the wrong for the new band (e.g. 1 Mbps for 802.11a).
All rate control modules have been fixed to deal with it in a more
helpful way than crashing the kernel.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin