Madwifi-ng tools missing

[Soren Hansen]

On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 03:12:35PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> > Edgy's kernel now ships with the Madwifi-ng drivers AIUI, which
> > present a number of regressions compared to Dapper's. I was very
> > surprised that one cannot use 'iwconfig ath0 mode ad-hoc' to change
> From what I understand, you can install linux-wlan-ng, and use the
> wlancfg command.

I'm afraid not. It appears that madwifi-ng uses its very own interface
for manipulating these things. I took a quick peek at the mib's that
could be changed by linux-wlan-ng and it seems that none of the things
the madwifi wlanconfig utility can do was among those mib's.

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