Re: Problems with madwifi driver & kernel 2.6

On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 11:00:35AM +0200, Tomàs Núñez wrote:
> Hi!
> I'm using knoppix, and I must say it's getting better and better in every new 
> release. I use it as demo-disk, recovery-disk, test-hardware-disk and 
> debian-install-disk, and I'm pretty happy in all those environments (thanks 
> Klaus and all people involved! :P)
> 
> I'm using some Conceptronics Wifi Cards (madwifi driver), and I've seen they 
> work perfectly if using knoppix-kernel-2.4, but they don't work at all in 
> 2.6.
> 
> Is this normal? (as 2.6 is theorically just "experimental" in knoppix, I 
> understand that it may not support all hardware). Is there a simple way to 
> make this cards work on kernel 2.6?

Yes, it's normal. I could not get the madwifi drivers to work with
kernel 2.6, but did not invest too much time finding out what went wrong
either.

Regards
-Klaus Knopper