[Voyage-linux] Problems with alix 2d3 and madwifi on voyage-current (lenny)

[Panagiotis Malakoudis]

It certainly isn't a voyage problem. It's a madwifi problem, but since
voyage is used in many wireless applications, it becomes a voyage problem
too unfortunately.

Juergen 's settings didn't help me. I was struggling to find a solution,
since I don't like the idea to stay in the old voyage version.
I built voyage-kernel 2.6.23 with gcc 4.1.3 (2.6.23 doesn't compile with
4.3.2) and tried the madwifi-source of r3772. Again, I had stuck beacon
errors and reboots.

Then I used the madwifi-source of 0.9.4~rc2 and that fixed the problem!!!
Unfortunately, madwifi-source 0.9.4~rc2 does not compile with 2.6.26. I get
the following error:

CC [M]
/usr/src/modules/madwifi/net80211/ieee80211_power.o

/usr/src/modules/madwifi/net80211/ieee80211_power.c: In function
'ieee80211_pwrs

ave':


/usr/src/modules/madwifi/net80211/ieee80211_power.c:240: error: implicit
declara
                             tion of function '__skb_append'

__skb_append became obsolete in 2.6.26.

So, for now I'll be using 2.6.23 + madwifi 0.9.4~rc2 and I'll keep trying
various older madwifi releases with 2.6.26 to see if I can find a working
combination.



On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Leigh Orf <orf at mailbag.com> wrote:

> I just wanted to chime in as another person who has an alix 2d3
> running voyage 0.6.0 who has had the same problems with the stuck
> beacons, NETDEV watchdog timeout message, etc. Also, sometimes hostapd
> gets stuck in an infinite loop of auth/death which is only fixed bring
> ath0 down and up again. I subscribed to this list partially to see if
> these problems had a solution. I do not believe it is a voyage linux
> only problem. I look forward to trying out ath5k in access point mode
> - it isn't there yet.
>
> I have managed 8 days uptime max before the board reboots itself
> suddenly after a trickle of stuck beacons and NETDEV WATCHDOG: wifi0:
> transmit timed out messages. I will soon update to 0.6.1.
>
> Leigh
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