[Prism54-devel] Prism-USB in ad-hoc and master mode

Jan Kiszka jan.kiszka at web.de
Fri May 13 13:47:49 UTC 2005


Jean-Baptiste Note wrote:
> Hi Jan,
> 
> 
>>Tracking this crash down, I found out that it's enough to start up the
>>WUSB54G in ad-hoc mode and leave it alone for a while. I got this ASSERT
>>of the madwifi stack:
> 
> 
>>It looks like ieee80211_node_leave() gets called in ad-mode while this
>>function only likes to be used on AP mode...
> 
> 
> This is a bug in madwifi as far as i can tell, the stack sets everything
> up in IBSS mode so that this function is called in case a node
> timesout. I guess it has been corrected, so you can try the standard
> version of wlan.ko from the current madwifi driver, it will work out of
> the box. I'll update the version on my site later on.
> 

Sounds good, will do so.

BTW, which alternative stack are you planning to use, that of the 
ipw2200 driver? What are the benefits?

Jan
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