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

[Kim-man 'Punky' TSE]

Hi all,

Forgot to mention, please post your constructive feedback after testing 
these different branches. 

Right now, I am running a simple AP download test using hal-testing 
branch without any stuck bacon for almost 15 hours.

To me, going back to 0.9.4rc2 is not my best option, unless at the end 
we have no stable madwifi. 

Regards,
Punky


Kim-man 'Punky' TSE wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Apart from backport 0.9.4rc2, I have built whole lots of madwifi from 
> different branches for testing, and they are now in
>
> http://www.voyage.hk/dists/experimental/madwifi/
>
> The branches are:
>    hal-testing (openwrt/dd-wrt) : 
> madwifi-modules-2.6.26-486-voyage_0.9.4+r3942.20090205haltesting-1+6.0-3_i386.deb 
>
>    hal-0.10.5.6 : 
> madwifi-modules-2.6.26-486-voyage_0.9.4+r3942.20090205hal0.10.5.6-1+6.0-3_i386.deb 
>
>    hal-free : 
> madwifi-modules-2.6.26-486-voyage_0.9.4+r3952.20090213free-1+6.0-3_i386.deb 
>
>
> Regards,
> Punky
>
> Juergen Adolph wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I installed the latest pkg from 22-Feb-2009:
>>  
>> madwifi-modules-2.6.26-486-voyage_0.9.4~rc2-1+6.0-3_i386.deb
>>
>> and now, it works without any stuck beacon error - great!
>>
>> many thanks!
>>
>> regards,
>> juergen
>>
>> ----- "Panagiotis Malakoudis" <malakudi at gmail.com> schrieb:
>>
>>  
>>> Ok, made some more progress!!!
>>>
>>> I patched the madwifi-source 0.9.4~rc2 with the diff file from
>>> http://madwifi-project.org/changeset/3696/madwifi/branches/madwifi-0.9.4 
>>>
>>> so that it can compile under 2.6.26 and that fixed my "stuck beacon"
>>> problems. I haven't seen a single "stuck beacon" with this setup. It
>>> seems the wireless performance is quite slower than the same
>>> combination with 2.6.23, but I am still checking on this.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Panagiotis Malakoudis <
>>> malakudi at gmail.com > wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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-- 
Regards,
Punky

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