I use madwifi-ng from CVS. I have to say that when I downgraded to NetworkManager-0.5.1-8 they have always worked, but never for later NM. I have only now had success with later NM versions after removing the patch.
Dan Williams wrote:
On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 06:13 -0800, Brian Anderson wrote:
As documented in bug 180369, NetworkManager stopped connecting my madwifi wireless card after the change from NetworkManager-0.5.1-8 to NetworkManager-0.5.1-10. I use the CVS versions of the madwifi drivers. I use WEP for authorization.
Today I downloaded the SRPM for NetworkManager-0.6.0-2 and removed the special-case-madwifi.patch and built the binary. This version of NM can connect to my madwifi card. The patch is trying to work around a WPA problem in the madwifi drivers. My question is has the fix for WPA broken WEP?
Are you using madwifi drivers, of the madwifi-ng drivers? wpa_supplicant must be compiled for one or the other, and right now its compiled for madwifi-ng. So if you're not using madwifi-ng, NM + wpa_supplicant won't work for your card.
In general though, madwifi-ng has been _very_ touchy, with every other revision of the drivers being pretty much useless. Not sure about the older madwifi drivers though.
Dan