MacBook Pro status update: now with WiFi
MadWiFi has got experimental support for the Atheros chip used in the Core2 Duo MacBook and MacBook Pro; the driver supports the chip in a/b/g mode, WEP and WPA do not seem to work at the moment and there is no power management support yet. No news on 802.11n support at that time.
The driver is available in the madwifi-hal-0.9.30.10 branch until the new HAL is merged back into the trunk.
More information:
- MadWiFi ticket #1001: support for the Atheros5008 chipset
- MadWiFi ticket #1243: WEP/WPA troubles
No progress to report on the other MacBook Pro issues, 2.6.21 might help a bit as far as power consumption is concerned but I’m not holding my breath.