linux-kernel - Re: [madwifi-project] Death to MadWifi!

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Date:	Tue, 12 May 2009 15:22:33 +0200
From:	Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@...e.fr>
To:	Bob Copeland <me@...copeland.com>
Cc:	Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...il.com>, p0g0@...wifi-project.org,
	madwifi-project@...ema.h4ckr.net, Cliff.Holden@...eros.com,
	mb@...sch.de, nbd@...nwrt.org, mickflemm@...il.com, proski@....org,
	juhosg@...nwrt.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [madwifi-project] Death to MadWifi!

On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 08:38 -0400, Bob Copeland wrote:
> For what it is worth, I find it rather counter-productive when people on
> irc suggest using ath5k to solve every madwifi problem, for example, for
> AP mode, which clearly isn't enabled in even 2.6.30 and has bugs with the
> TIM in the wireless-testing kernel[1].  That sort of thing just leads to
> pissed off users.

I'm one of them. Hours dealing with hostapd and ath5k, and then
realizing that AP mode just isn't there.
It'll be a while before I'll try it again, even if madwifi has its own
ways of pissing me off.

	Xav


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