Release v0.9.5

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Milestone:	version 0.9.5
Expected:	2008-??-??
Released:	2008-??-??
Release candidate(s):	n/a

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More detailed information in the revision log

Fixed bugs

#336

compilation error from ah_osdep.h, compiled for linux 2.4.24, xscale-ixp425, big endian.

#342

R 1416 on XScale LE Oops kernel with 2.6.15 on modprobe ath_pci

#364

Check if requested module is loaded

#467

Missing of internal authenticator for HostAP mode

#539

HostAPd: ioctl[IEEE80211_IOCTL_SETMLME]: Invalid argument ERROR

#835

Kernel Oops after recreating VAP

#889

sylogs show error: ath_xr_rate_setup: rate table too small (13 > 15)

#891

Problem with MADWiFi on PowerPC

#907

Node locking and managment hash-up

#930

adjust madwifi for WE21, which no longer reports SSID length + 1

#952

madwifi 0.9.2 iwlist scan shows much fewer APs than wlanconfig list scan. Fixed in current svn

#965

[patch] dynamic Beacon Interval (enhancement for STA mode)

#977

New version of D-Link DWL-AG660 H/W Ver B3 (AR5006X) do not see net packets in monitor mode after some time of work

#994

Crash after 'ifconfig ath0 up' on a mips1-be

#1001

HAL does not support new Atheros chipID 0x0024 (rev 01) on new Macbook Pro

#1017

"rx FIFO overrun" prevents traffic from flowing

#1020

Check for NULL pointer dereferencing

#1033

Ad-hoc mode beacons are not transmitted for a while after a merge with another network.

#1049

Kernel oops during scan timer (XScale IXP425 BE)

#1053

procfs sample rate statistics - trivial improvements

#1054

SCAN and RUN can't happen at the same time

#1057

Beacon miss handling starts only after many seconds

#1064

kernel oops under xscale BE 2.4.x rev > madwifi-ng-r1885

#1068

Sample rate module causes crash in calc_usecs_unicast_package when changing channel on IXP425 platform

#1069

Function ieee80211_node_saveq_drain causes crash on IXP420 platform on station reassociation

#1070

Function _ieee80211_free_node causes crash on IXP425 platform on station reassociation and driver reinit

#1071

Function ieee80211_input sometimes crashes on IXP425 platform on driver reinit

#1072

On IXP425 madwifi driver sometimes crashes in ath_hardstart function when calling ath_ffstageq_flush

#1073

Function ath_node_free sometimes crashes on IXP425 platform

#1074

Function ath_txcapture sometimes crashes the driver on IXP425 platform/

#1078

Corrupted vap pointer causes crash in ieee80211_hardstart function

#1099

Crash on x86_64 SMP

#1187

Setting tx power on highest value is ignored

#1188

Can connect to the AP, but network doensn't work.

#1195

cp in Makefile install target can break system

#1200

ioctl_setmlme / freed lock related kernel crash

#1213

[patch] fast frame corruption

#1214

Crash when bringing up ath0 in monitor mode

#1224

"modprobe -r ath_pci" hangs since revision 2217

#1239

Soft lockup

#1252

software lockup/ kernel oops on recent svn revicions

#1261

Kernel oops: crashes under high load

#1270

Beacon Interval may be zero; it is used as a divisor

#1272

Page allocation failure on low memory systems

#1280

Bitfield endianess not handled correctly

#1284

[patch] Support for per-packet tpc modparam

#1308

[patch] make madwifi compile on linux later than 2.6.21

#1310

Unable to compile madwifi on sparc64

#1313

Smarter selection of tx antenna for multicast frames

#1325

crash in ath_hal with HAL 0.9.30.13 on SMP machine

#1329

Locking Hashup (2?) - Contend against the same contexts

#1332

adhoc mode freeze under linux

#1334

ieee80211_ioctl_getwmmparams local kernel DoS

#1336

[patch] Usability improvement to athdebug and 80211debug

#1337

[patch] Optional improved stack traces and compiler support for HAL invocations

#1338

[patch] IEEE80211_TXPOWER_MAX constant is wrong

#1340

[patch] Reverse engineering support commands

#1344

Xtended Range elements are incorrectly filled

#1362

patch: gcc-2.95 compile errors

#1368

random master mode freeze at high traffic

#1369

unstable behavior of trunk on mipsel platform - RB532 and similar

#1370

[patch] Protect ath_sysctl_halparam with ATH_LOCK and make ATH_LOCK disable IRQ

#1371

Add locking in ath_hal_api

#1388

Channel change behavior is wrong for AP mode

#1396

_ath_hal_attach leaks ath_hal struct on fail path

#1397

Per buffer TSF

#1399

Complete system freeze with AR5212 on X86-64

#1406

r2471 breaks association with (at least) Cisco 1100

#1423

r2486 breaks SUPERG_FF=0 compilation

#1428

ath_hardstart returns 0 even if queue is full

#1431

madwifi-ng-r2537-20070704 compilation error (arm xscale be ixp425 toolchain "snapgear")

#1436

Continuous lockups using SVN 2568 and kernel 2.6.22

#1437

No scan results - IXP425, SnapGear 2.4

#1442

[patch] rxantenna value is reset after suspend/resume

#1445

System freeze - BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0!

#1470

compilation error when AHB chosen as BUS instead of PCI

#1473

Patched into kernel - compile error in ath_hal/ah_os.c:560

#1475

Client changing to restricted authentication causes kernel panic

#1476

[patch] compile fix for (at least) linux 2.6.23-rc1-git10

#1477

[patch] A skb_over_panic fix

#1487

Spin lock conflict causing kernal panic after 1d+ of heavy use

#1494

kernel panic upon dhclient usage with some router (occurs also with some other commands)

#1495

kernel oops when in bridging ath0 to eth0

#1505

Oops on module load - sysfs_create_group

#1506

NULL pointer reference with iwspy

#1543

latest net80211/ieee80211_input.c to rev 2704 breaks MacBook wireless

#1554

AR5418 & svn 2707 unable to aquire DHCP address

#1563

memory leak between 3 (and more?) ad-hoc

#1578

[patch] node leak causing iwconfig/wlanconfig not show rssi in wds mode

#1581

Interface locks up for several minutes after heavy traffic : ath_mgtstart: discard, no xmit buf

#1595

reference count bug in _node_table_join function

#1600

Oops (NULL-pointer dereference) on linux-2.6.23-git15 and madwifi-r2781

#1621

Kernel oopses in ath_draintxq, and other ath_node unreferences due to refcount bug

#1660

Kernel panic when injecting with r2839 and up

#1682

VAP Memory leak on ifconfig up/down

#1700

[patch] update trans_start of a vap

#1702

Changeset 2798 causes ioctls to fail

#1726

kernel panic when using wpa_supp AND hostapd/another wpa_supp in a bridge

#1738

Crash on high load

#1756

Run time errors/crashes with 2.6.24

#1783

[patch] build failure on xscale little endian due to changeset 2933

#1787

Problem compiling trunk version of madwifi in kernel 2.4

#1819

panic with new stable 0.9.4 and Ubiquiti SR2

#1864

ath_rate_amrr and ath_rate_onoe use conflicting sysctl paths

#1875

the latest snv madwifi-ng does not compile

#1895

r3556 recent changes to if_ath.c breaks compile on amd64 machine

#1904

Monitor mode only works for a few minutes.

#1906

Trunk (r3556-20080421) won't compile under kernel 2.4

#1914

r3574 does not compile against 2.6.25-05309-gcb90a2c

#1922

Network connection hangs with r3548

#1926

Error with Andrew Morton patchset (2.6.25-mm1)

#1927

Monitor mode packet injection broken starting in svn r3481

#1932

Trunk (r3620) does not compile for kernel 2.4

#1933

[patch] off by one error - fast frame buffer address incorrect

#1934

Cannot compile from SVN 3403

#1941

Memory Leak on svn r3426

#1973

Makefile(s) should clean modules.order kbuild product at clean time

#1989

Trunk builds fail

#1992

Maybe wrong calculation of curRate

#1999

[patch] error: format not a string literal and no format arguments

#2022

compilation error - trunk 2008-07-01

#2066

iwconfig athX channel X, fail?

Known issues

• Various mode changing and scanning related annoyances (#572, #254, #352)
• Suspend state not working properly (#201)
• Countrycode regression in recent HAL versions (#120)
• Stability problems when more than one VAP is in active use (#182, many other tickets)
• Documentation about private ioctl's and other features not 100% complete (#324, #486, #527, #399)

TO DO: This list needs to be corrected.

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