Madwifi has a major problem with 802.11a sensitivity that makes it pretty much useless for long links. (the entire sorry tale can be seen in this bug : http://madwifi.org/ticket/705)
I'm wondering if there is any prospect of making a 'fixed' madwifi that is compatible with OpenWrt. This appears to be problematic because the fix made to openwrt is at present only in their 0.9.4 release, and not in the trunk releases used in OpenWrt. Furthermore, it isn't a simple case of patching the fix into the trunk code because it depends on HAL behavior that is not present in the HAL version used by the trunk madwifi code. This implies that it would be necessary to build a 0.9.4 version of madwifi for OpenWrt. This in turn looks tricky because many of the patches OpenWrt applies to madwifi do not apply to the 0.9.4 code. Has anyone else done battle with this ? Any thoughts ? Right now my best option is to switch to Mikrotik :( Thanks for your time. _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
