I am having the same issue as brandon atkinson, it seems, because
"iwpriv ath0 mode 3" worked for me as well after 4 days of wireless
outage.  The bug was *fixed* at some point in the recent past, because
I've been using hardy for about one month, and my wireless driver has
worked the entire time.  Then an update to, I think, NM caused it to
stop working again, and no kernel upgrades or messing around have fixed
it.  My stack:

- madwifi (current nightly snapshot)
- hardy heron, up-to-date as of 2008-03-10.
- currently running Linux 2.6.24-12-generic

And this, in rc.local:
   modprobe ath_pci
   iwpriv ath0 bgscan 0

This config worked fine for me on G networks both WPA and unencrypted.

Around, approximately, Thursday 2008-03-06 an update went into hardy
that broke the wireless for me.  No connection to either WPA or
unencrypted networks with madwifi.

For a while I switched to ndiswrapper'd drivers, which worked, but ONLY
on unencrypted networks.  No WPA.

Finally today I found this bug, and brandon's post above, turned off
ndiswrapper, and tried iwpriv ath0 mode 3.  Bingo, everything works
again in WPA.  So I believe there is a real bug here; it seems to be
kernel-independent (it is definitely OS-independent, as I can boot to
Leopard and use the wireless network).  It may affect ndiswrapper and
madwifi, or only madwifi (if ndiswrapper's wpa problems were r/t
something else).

What I expected to happen: connect to my 802.11g (WPA) network as usual,
with the above stack and rc.local.

What actually happened: I have to add iwpriv ath0 mode 3 to connect to
any 802.11g network with madwifi.

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