MadWiFi 0.9.3 is out !!!

[Nick Kossifidis]

Gia osous den to eidate xthes vghke h ekdosh 0.9.3 tou MadWiFi,
perissoteres plhrofories tha vreite edw ->
http://madwifi.org/wiki/Releases/0.9.3

O kwdikas ston driver exei strwsei arketa ap' to prohgoumeno release
kai twra ginetai compile kai me neoterous pyrhnes. Ta mona provlhmata
pou exoun anaferthei aforoun to kainourio HAL to opoio den anagnwrizei
swsta kapoies kartes (akoma den yparxei support gia tis 5424 -aytes
pou einai sta macbook klp- kai tis kainouries MIMO kartes ths
Atheros-) kata ta alla sas proteinw osoi exete Atheros na kanete to
update asap ;-)

To epomeno release tha vgei poio syntoma elpizoume giati exoume arketa
pragmata upopsh, hdh yparxoun 2 branches sta opoia ginetai parallhla
douleia gia to epomeno release, sto ena branch (madwifi-hal-0.9.20.3)
ginetai douleia gia na enswmatosoume to teleytaio HAL pou vgalan sto
FreeBSD (sto HAL ayto to radar detection exei vgei ap' to HAL kai
ginetai ston driver opote prepei na ftiaxtei enas tetoios mhxanismos
sto kommati tou driver). Sto allo branch (madwifi-ng-refcount) ginetai
douleia gia to locking tou net80211 stack kai to node handling, ayto
se syndiasmo me to ticket 1143 tha strwsei arketa ton driver kai tha
vgoun ap th mesh arketa deadlocks. Perissotera infos edw ->
http://madwifi.org/wiki/DevDocs/Branches

Twra oson afora to open source alternative pou doulevoume, o driver
tha onomazetai ath5k kai anamenetai na mpei ston pyrhna molis ton
strwsoume arketa. Se ayto doulevoume egw me ton Pavel Roskin kai pros
to paron ton kwdika mporeite na ton vreite sta -openhal branches (exei
ginei kai allh douleia sto git tree tou Pavel -opou exei katharistei o
kwdikas tou driver kai sto laptop mou -opou exw kanei merge ton kwdika
gia ola ta chipsets, ton exw katharisei kai exoun eksafanistei ta
callbacks opote den yparxei pleon HAL alla kateytheian calls stis
synartiseis). Sto kommati ayto exoume kolhsei ligo sto endianess (o
driver se PPC px doulevei kanonika, syndeetai alla den metaferontai
dedomena) kai telika paizei bug ston pyrhna kai perimenoume na ton
ftiaksoun mexri thn 2.6.22 opou kai kata pasa pithanothta tha mpei
ston pyrhna epishma to mac80211 stack (to d80211) paketo me tous
driver gia tis intel kartes klp.

I'll keep you posted ;-)

P.S. O Theo telika einai poly periergos typos, edwsa merika fixes ston
Reyk kai merikes synarthseis pou kaname implement, o Reyk tis evale
sto openbsd gia na ginei sync o kwdikas klp kai o Theo phge kai tis
evgale thn idia mera !!! Pathetic apla, o typos prepei na exei trelo
komplex me tous Linuxades, les kai exoume na xwrisoume tipota re
gmt...

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As you read this post global entropy rises. Have Fun ;-)
Nick