Bug 168407 – madwifi-old fails to compile because of 2.6.20 patch

• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 166300
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description A. Person 2007-02-26 02:43:01 UTC]

madwifi-old fails to compile with a patch error regarding the 2.6.20 patch.  If I comment the patch out of the ebuild and generate a new digest, it compiles just fine.  I believe the patch was created in response to this bug:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166300

Alternatively, I wouldn't need to use madwifi-old if madwifi-ng supported master mode.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge madwifi-old
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
failed compile

Expected Results:  
emerged madwifi-old

[Comment 1 Alex Maclean 2007-02-26 02:46:20 UTC]

Supported master mode on what card? I have an AR5212 working flawlessly in master mode..

[Comment 2 A. Person 2007-02-26 05:33:06 UTC]

I have a WG511T.  It works in master mode with madwifi-old but not madwifi-ng.  I actually got madwifi-ng into master mode a little while ago by loading ath_pci in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 like this:

ath_pci autocreate=ap

but it stopped working after a big emerge world and I wasn't able to get it back.

[Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-02-26 07:27:11 UTC]

Already fixed.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 166300 ***

[Comment 4 A. Person 2007-02-26 15:52:55 UTC]

I got my card into master mode by specifying:

options ath_pci autocreate=ap

in /etc/modules.d/ath_pci instead of using /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6.

[Comment 5 A. Person 2007-02-26 15:57:54 UTC]

Had to run modules-update too.