>>> Could you post the output of lspci, please? I have stability >>> problems with >>> madwifi on my system, so if you've got the same wlan chipset >>> I would give it a try also (with 2.6.27, then). >> >> 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg >> NIC (rev 01) > > I have the same one. > >> FWIW I had no stability issues with madwifi-ng 0.9.4 with wpa_supplicant >> 0.5.7 with 2.6.25-gentoo-r7, and IIRC that was with only the old 80211 stuff >> turned on in the kernel. (??IEEE80211 instead of MAC80211??) > > Mine works great except it freezes the whole system when starting ath0 > in master mode if I have SMP enabled in my kernel: > > http://madwifi.org/ticket/1903 > > - Grant
In case anyone else runs into this with madwifi-ng, it's fixed with the latest madwifi-ng-svn ebuild in the je_fro overlay. ath5k doesn't support master mode yet in 2.6.27 (although there is a patch floating around) and madwifi-old is completely unsupported (sandbox violations, should be removed from portage). - Grant
