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On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 08:45:40PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 20:02 -0500, John W. Linville wrote:

> > Sounds like the new version of cfg80211's wext compatibility hook
> > is broken...?
> 
> I've applied two patches by Johannes "fix wext_ioctl() exit path" and
> "fix cfg80211 modular compile w/o wext-compat", and MadWifi is working
> fine now.
 
Soungs good...thanks for the report!

> On the other hand, DadWifi won't compile:
> 
> /home/proski/src/dadwifi/ath/if_ath_d80211.c: In function
> 'ath_d80211_calc_bssid_mask':
> /home/proski/src/dadwifi/ath/if_ath_d80211.c:305: error: 'struct
> ieee80211_hw' has no member named 'perm_addr'
> 
> The same problem exists with iwlwifi.  I'm away from my bcm43xx card at
> the moment.

Yep...this goes with the territory for out-of-kernel drivers.

FWIW, the changes are straight-forward.  See the commits near the
top of the tree for examples.

> I'll post more if I find any problems with either upgrading the driver
> or wireless extensions for d80211 enabled drivers.

Thanks,

John
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John W. Linville
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