Stroller schrieb:
On 12 Jun 2009, at 16:38, Grant wrote:
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OK, thank you Norman. The reason I'm trying to switch (this is my
third serious attempt) is some kind of a bug that crashes the system
when SMP is enabled and the madwifi driver is in master mode. I've
been running without SMP, but I could really use the extra power.
That's interesting. I had an old 4 x processor machine running as an
access-point (madwifi or madwifi-ng) running in master mode for at
least a year or two. It was unstable as heck, and I never attributed
it to this. It would, however, stay up for days or weeks at a time.
Maybe this bug has crept in more recently? I'm not sure that it will
apply to my new system (on which I'd like to run an AP, as soon as I
get round to it) as that is a single processor P4.
Do you know if there is better Gentoo support for this on the horizon?
I did find the dev uberlord immensely helpful when I was first doing
this. He was the baselayout guy at the time, although I don't know if
he still is or if you might be able to get hold of him.
IMO the first thing to do is get the AP up & running without resort to
the Gentoo init.d scripts. Try allocating an IP address to wlan0 just
using `ifconfig` as root. If that works then you know the hardware &
principles of operation are all ok.
Stroller.
I would recomment the same thing. Play around manualy. Find out what
works and what does not. And if you found a manual way, you can start
scriptworkarounds and automating things.
