Comment 40 for bug 37821

@Chris:

> Well Matteo, I think that various people have various opinions on the
> matter. It's probably best not raking over those old coals again is
> it? ;-)

I guess it is not. Sorry about that. Didn't mean to offend anyone though.

However, maybe in my case it is not this very bug, but symptoms are the same and I couldn't in any way get my wifi card to work correctly with madwifi.

- Disabling Network Manager didn't help (see my previous post)
- sudo iwpriv ath0 bgscan 0 didn't help.
- A few other "solutions" I found on similar bug reports didn't help.

The only way I could get connected was by getting rid of madwifi and using ndiswrapper + windows drivers.

I tried 8 linux distros, including Ubuntu; all of them booted with the live CD come out of the box with madwifi as the driver of the wifi card, the card is recognized and supposed to be working; however ALL of them exhibit more or less the behaviour described in this report: I can connect every once in a while and then lose connection soon. Latest version today of all the distros I tried, though probably this doesn't mean they include the latest version of madwifi.

Both in Ubuntu and Sabayon, I could easily get the connection working (at least as well as solid and fast as in windows) by replacing madwifi with ndiswrapper, without even touching network manager.