[Olsr-users] Olsr-users Digest, Vol 6, Issue 1

[Giampaolo Mancini]

Hi,

Florian RODARY wrote:
> Hi,
> AFAIK, the problem is still being investigated by Madwifi team, and no
> corrective patch has been published. Madwifi drivers seems to had some
> annoying problems, and their new implementation with virtual AP is all
> but easy to manipulate.
> Therefore I suggest you to switch to another chip.

Which one?

Do you have same 802.11 chip to suggest which drivers would be available
in GPL/Open Source License *and* which would _really_ work in Ad-Hoc
Mode *and* which, for example, would support 802.11a?

It seems that these are very dark days for 802.11 hardware for FLOSS
community.

See you,
mancho.

> 
> Regards,
> Florian
> 
> 2007/11/13, Ben McCarthy <(spam-protected)
> <mailto:(spam-protected)> >:
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>      
> 
>     I get the same problems also with MADWIFI in ad-hoc mode and I'm
>     curious to know if there are any better alternatives to MADWIFI that
>     people can suggest for building MANET testbeds?
> 
>      
> 
>     Cheers,
> 
>      
> 
>     Ben
> 
>      
> 
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>     *From:* (spam-protected)
>     <mailto:(spam-protected)> [mailto:
>     (spam-protected)
>     <mailto:(spam-protected)>] *On Behalf Of *Florian
>     RODARY
>     *Sent:* 02 November 2007 01:32
>     *To:* (spam-protected) <mailto:(spam-protected)>
>     *Subject:* Re: [Olsr-users] Olsr-users Digest, Vol 6, Issue 1
> 
>      
> 
>     FYI, I got numerous problems with the latest Madwifi drivers too,
>     and Linksys cards based on a recent atheros, with kernels oops
>     everytime I tried to switch in ad-hoc mode when more than one
>     computer were already listening on the same ESSID.
>     I just switched to old classical Orinoco Silver with orinoco_cs
>     module (and not hostap_cs, beware).
> 
>     Regards,
>     Florian
> 
>     2007/11/2, David Murray < (spam-protected)
>     <mailto:(spam-protected)>>:
> 
> 
>     > On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 18:49 +0900, David Murray wrote:
>     > [...]
>     >> PS: I know this is not the MADWiFi support channel but I have raised
>     >> this issue with them nobody there seems to have encountered the
>     problem
>     >
>     > Do you have an URL to an archive of these threads?
>     >
>     >       Bernd
> 
>     Sure, I posted a ticket http://madwifi.org/ticket/1530 and have raised
>     it in their IRC discussion channel. This should give you the exact
>     details of my problem. I suspect that Sven was having the same trouble.
> 
>     Cheers
> 
>     Dave
> 
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> 


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Giampaolo "mancho" Mancini
    Wi-Next Labs
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