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regarding madwifi should provide complete wext support
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Package: network-manager
Version: 0.6.4-8
When using a madwifi-based wireless card (with driver built from
madwifi-source 0.9.3-3 in sid), it is currently impossible to associate to
any access point using NetworkManager. NetworkManager will see the access
points, but upon attempting to associate, the lights in nm-applet never turn
green and it eventually gives up. The card works fine when configured
manually (without using NetworkManager). My system is an up-to-date Debian
sid/i386 installation using kernel 2.6.22-1 (from sid) and libc6 2.6-3.
This seems somewhat related to the wpa_supplicant settings used by
network-manager, as Ubuntu's network-manager has patches which specifically
use wpa_supplicant's "madwifi" driver as opposed to its "wext" driver.
In Ubuntu's case, NetworkManager works flawlessly on the same machine, and
installing the Ubuntu network-manager package makes it work on Debian
(though that setup has other difficulties due to the problems mixing
Debian/Ubuntu packages).
Could a fix such as the one used in Ubuntu's case be investigated? The patch
is part of the (big) network-manager patch on patches.ubuntu.com. This
issue is somewhat of a show-stopper in my case...
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 1:0.9.4+r3772.20080716-1+rm
The madwifi package has been removed from Debian so we are closing
the bugs that were still opened against it.
For more information about this package's removal, read
http://bugs.debian.org/519446 . That bug might give the reasons why
this package was removed, and suggestions of possible replacements.
Don't hesitate to reply to this mail if you have any question.
Thank you for your contribution to Debian.
Kind regards,
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Marco Rodrigues
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