On Jan 10, 2011, at 7:55 PM, JD wrote: > Dear All, > I installed a new wifi mini-pci card in my notebook. > It has the Atheros AR9220/AR9223 chipset. > > When I boot into level 5 and su to root, I run > > modprobe ath9k > > and I get error messages from multiple components of ath9k > > Here is some info: > > # ifconfig > lo Link encap:Local Loopback > inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 > UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 > RX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 > RX bytes:814 (814.0 b) TX bytes:814 (814.0 b) > > # ifconfig ath0 > ath0: error fetching interface information: Device not found > # modprobe ath9k > WARNING: Error inserting ath9k_hw > (/lib/modules/2.6.37-1.fc13.i686 Okay, local rebuild here, since there's no Fedora 13 2.6.37 kernels that the kernel team has built. > /kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k_hw.ko): This looks like ath9k provided by the kernel. > (/lib/modules/2.6.37-1.fc13.i686/updates/compat/compat.ko): Invalid argument > WARNING: Error inserting mac80211 > (/lib/modules/2.6.37-1.fc13.i686/updates/net/mac80211/mac80211.ko): Invalid > argument And these look like bits provided by either added patches or an out of tree build of the wireless-compat backport stack, complete with different interfaces for assorted functions, thus the failure. -- Jarod Wilson jarod@xxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel
