[Madwifi-devel] Re: Stuck beacon patch, and more info

[Daniel S. <da...@pr...>]

mad...@li... wrote:

> Subject: [Madwifi-devel] Stuck beacon patch, and more info re: stuck beacon and 
Centrino
> From: "David D. Hagood" <wow...@sk...>
> Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 18:07:21 -0600
> To: mad...@li...
> 
> To: mad...@li...
> 
> I managed to get the stuck beacon patch to apply to the current source 
> image, mostly by hand - I've attached a cvs diff -u to the end of this 
> message.
> 
> However, this still does not address the core problem of what is causing 
> the stuck beacon condition. However, I do have some more information 
> that may be of use.

I asked on the list a while back whether any progress had been made 
tracking down this problem, and got barely any response. I am running 
some hardware (Proxim, Atheros 5212-based PCI card) which I know to 
suffer from SBP. However, I am running some fairly old mad-wifi drivers 
(before WPA branch was merged) and it works fine! My drivers are from 
around May '04. I did try an update in Nov '04, and it made the machine 
run like a 5MHz 8086. Since this box is a remote server, I'm reluctant 
to try an update again because little or no progress has been made with 
this problem.

I cannot understand why the developers can't compare code from back then 
when things worked, and now when things are borked. Surely that would be 
a fairly obvious and logical solution.