[oe] madwifi-ng & linux 2.6.29

[Mike (mwester)]

Adrien Demarez wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am working with Jeremy Lainé on the boc01 architecture. Currently, we
> do use Madwifi + hostapd 0.5 for our 11g Atheros minicard modules
> (despite we want to switch to ath9k / ath5k when it is mature enough).
> As we are still using 2.6.27 kernel and found ath9k is not mature enough
> for AP in this version (at least, it does not work with our AR9160
> modules), I have written a working recipe for compat-wireless (not yet
> committed into OE though, please tell if anyone is interested. Beware :
> it does not compile if MAC80211 or CFG80211 is defined as 'y' in the
> kernel, use 'm' or 'n' instead !).
> This is working, though I'd prefer using vanilla in-kernel drivers
> instead of compat-wireless (so I plan to have a look to ath*k in 2.6.29
> kernel very soon).
> 
> In order to use ath*k (or any drivers using nl80211) with hostapd, I
> have also written a recipe for hostapd-0.6.9 (Jeremy has uploaded it
> into OE) and this is working perfectly with our AR9160 modules using
> ath9k from compat-wireless. I am currently testing ath5k, but I run into
> a few troubles with AP mode, so until this is fixed we still need to
> keep a working madwifi+hostapd-0.5.10 (I also experienced a few troubles
> with madwifi + hostapd-0.6.9 so for the moment we stand with hostapd-0.5
> when using madwifi, and hostapd-0.6 is not set as the default one. I
> will look at this soon but getting a working ath5k/AP is more important
> to me currently).
> I also have to do more testing with wpa_supplicant (currently, AP mode
> is my focus).
> 
> BTW, if anyone is interested, I also have written a working recipe for
> madwifi using hal-0.10.5.6. I found this hal is necessary for some
> recent chips like AR2417 with whom the vanilla madwifi-ng driver does
> not work.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> --
> Adrien Demarez

Wow.

I had no idea this was so complicated.

For the moment, I'm going to drop madwifi, hostapd from the SlugOS
feeds, and put a SlugOS-specific hack into wpa-supplicant.  I guess
we'll need to invest a whole lot more time to sort out the new Atheros
driver world.

Mike (mwester)