Bug#364458: madwifi-source: Error on 'ifdown' and 'iwconfig mode auto'

[Kel Modderman]

Celejar wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 23:39:46 +1000
> Kel Modderman <kelrin at tpg.com.au> wrote:
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>> Are you using madwifi-ng from upstream trunk? Or the version provided by 
>> the debian package?
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>> Kel.
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> Hi,
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> Thanks for the responses. I'm using the Debian package (as stated in the original bug report) which uses the old codebase.
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Thanks, for clarifying. For a brief moment I suspected you may have been 
using upstream madwifi-ng :-)

> Matt Brown's comment that
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>> The message is caused by /etc/network/if-post-down.d/wireless-tools
>> attempting to run iwconfig "$IFACE" mode auto which of course fails on
>> madwifi as it does not allow interface mode changes.
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>> The best solution imo would be to fix madwifi so that it did allow mode
>> changes, but I can't see that happening anytime soon as I understand it
>> would involve rewriting half the driver.
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> is not correct for the old codebase; issuing 'mode master' followed by 'mode managed', for example, works fine. His point may be true for the new codebase, though; I think I remember seeing something to that effect on madwifi.org.
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Indeed, Matt's statements were about madwifi-ng, I think. And it is good 
he brought it up, as the madwifi-ng codebase could be entering debian 
any time soon.

> I'll make a suggestion for the docs within a day or so.
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Thanks!

Kel.