[Madwifi-users] madwifi-20030802.tgz availble on sourceforge

[Sam L. <sa...@er...>]

You can find a new release at <http://sourceforge.net/projects/madwifi/>. 
The release notes are include below for your convenience.  Thanks to all 
who contributed fixes, including:

Carl Thompson
Nick Moss
William S. Kish
Joerg Albert
gio...@fa...

I'm also working on uploading the CVS repository to sourceforge so the 
existing CVS history is preserved.  After that's done you'll be able to 
track the code more closely and we'll be able to give people commit 
privileges.  The HAL will be kept elsewhere and released separately for 
import to the madwifi CVS repo.

We've received numerous requests for the non-x86 versions of the HAL.  Now 
that this version is out we'll try to look at that as time permits, but 
understand that this work is done in our free time.

Moving forward I'm going to have little time to work on this project.  What 
time I do have will be spent on the HAL or on my FreeBSD version of the 
code.  I will however continue to help out and answer questions but other 
folks will need to step up.  If you have experience with kernel programming 
and/or wireless networking and want to work on the software please contact 
me.

	Sam

Changes 
(<http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=82936&release_id=17
5548>)

Build/general changes:

o add support for Linux 2.6 (Carl Thompson)
o restructure Makefiles to simplify support for multiple Linux versions

Driver changes:

o remove bmisshack no longer needed with HAL fix to properly set the BSSID 
after association
o mods for Linux 2.6 (Carl Thompson)
o fix initial xmit rate when operating in station mode (William Kish)
o correct logic for starting the rate control thread when the xmit rate is 
locked (William Kish)
o correct data lengths passed to pci_*map* for recv frames (Nick Moss)
o correct packet length calculation for outbound frames using WEP (Joerg 
Albert)

WLAN changes:

o rename LIST_HEAD macro to ATH_LIST_HEAD to avoid conflict on RH9
o fix typo in mhz2ieee conversion code
o use GPF_ATOMIC for various memory allocations
o fix channel setting (Nick Moss)

HAL changes:

o correct BSSID setup in ah_writeAssocid for 5211 and 5212 (fixes
  reception of broadcast frames after association)
o correct transmit retry counts returned by 5211 in ah_procTxDesc
o add missing regulatory domain support that caused use of 11b channels to 
be
  disallowed with some cards (e.g. mini-pci cards in certain IBM laptops)
o miscellaneous fixes to regulatory domain support
o increase size of 5212 ANI table to avoid overflow
o add monitor mode
o remove OS_QSORT support
o fix handling of HAL_RXDESC_INTREQ in ah_setupRxDesc
o rewrite 5212 descriptor handling for portability
o Linux: add support for module handling in versions > 2.4