Re: Wireless Woes
- From: Unruh <unruh-spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:10:21 GMT
"Dr. Deb" <dangbert@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Darren Green wrote:
Dr. Deb wrote:
Darren Green wrote:
Hi.
As a newbie I have been trying to setup my Atheros Wireless card
following one or two of the Gentoo Wiki's.
I emerged a number of items, wireless tools etc but to no avail. When I
run 'lspci' I receive the following:
00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co Ltd
RTL-8139/8139C/813C+ (rev 10) - My 10/100 Ethernet Card
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc AR5212
802.11abg NIC (rev 01) - My Wireless Card
An ifconfig shows:
eth0 - MY LAN Ethernet card present in use
l0 - My loopback address
If I do a iwconfig I get:
lo no wireless extensions
eth0 no wireless extensions
sit0 no wireless extensions
I e-mailed one of the Linux forums and was asked if I had run 'modprobe
ath-pci' which I hadn't. When I do I get the following result:
Warning: Error inserting ath_ha1
(/lib/modules/2.6.22-gentoo-r8/net/ath_ha1.ko): invalid module format
Warning : Error inserting wlan
(/lib/modules/2.6.22-gentoo-r8/net/wlan.ko): invalid module format
: Error inserting ath_pci (/lib/modules/2.6.22-gentoo-r8/net/ath_pci.ko)
: :
invalid module format
Can anyone point me in the right direction please so that I can resolve
this error.
Regards
Darren
Darren, I am not a Gentoo user so I need to ask a question first. Does
Gentoo use repositories to store additional programs on the net? If it
does, download "madwifi" and then try to install you wireless.
It really will get easier, when I first started installing mine I
wondered
if I had suddenly taken "stupid" pills. The users group is a good place
for information, but what really helped me was "someone with skin on".
In
this case my daughter who lives about 900 miles away. There are a
few "niceities" that they will point out as you go through that the rest
of us would overlook.
Deb
Deb,
Thanks for those words of encouragement.
I am keen to learn Linux, been in Cisco networking for the last 5 x
years and wanted to learn an OS other than MSoft.
I re-read the Gentoo WIKI document again this morning and re-traced my
steps. I did download the madwifi tar file, did a make and then a make
install. No errors when compiling but when I ran the modprobe again I
got the same result.
I'll keep googling, I am sure that I will get there eventually :-)
Regards
Darren
Darren, you say you are a "newbie" Is there any reason you are wedded to
Gentoo? If you are easing your way into the wonderful world of Linux the
way I did - mounted behind Windows - why not give PCLinuxOS a try? You can
download the LiveCD and run it from the CD. It should detect your wireless
card and allow you to setup and go. If you do not have your system
encrypted you will probably find you have about three mouse clicks to be
online.
http://www.pclinuxos.com
Deb
Well, he has a choice. He can try many different distros. MandrivaOne,
MCNLive,Kubuntu,.... all have live distros. All work well sometimes and
have problems at other times. All take a few hours to download ( days if
you do not have broadband connection) and burn and run. Now one may work.
Or it may not.
On the other hand a versions of Linux are in some sense the same. Ie, if
one works, all can be made to work. SO do you spend your time
downloading/burning with no guarentee of success or do you try to succeed.
Anyway, the OP has a problem in that the module he is trying to load was
not compiled for his kernel. We have no idea where he got it from.
It needs to be compiled for your kernel. Now I would be very very surprized
if there did not exist a Gentoo compiled version of the ath_ha1.ko module,
compiled for his kernel ( assuming he has not compiled a special kernel.)
.
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