Problems installing madwifi_pci, ath0 missing

From: Knut (maa_at_nok.sporre)
Date: 03/28/05 

Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 12:07:14 +0200

I am quite new to Linux. I have a old Toshiba portable with Mandrake 10.1
Community edition. I am trying to get a DLINK G650 wireless PCMCIA card to
work on this machine. I dont have any other network card (wired or
wireless). My card seem to be recognized but during boot i'm told that
ath_pci cannot find device ath0. I cannot find this device in any other way
either. Can anyone tell me how to install ath0? And yes, I am aware that
the device can have another name like wlan0, but the only devices I have
are lo and sit0.
I have dowloaded madwifi_pci source and stored these files in a directroy
under /home. Is it necessary to store them in a special directory? I have
also installed my Linux source (urpmi linux-source). I have modified
modules.conf, modules and modprobe.conf to include alias ath0 ath_pci. I
have created a symbolic link to the source files. I then run make clear,
make, and make install. Should I modify any configuration files or
variables, or execute any other commands before or after these
make-commands? These commands run without errors. Then I run depmod. After
this proecdure there is a new
directory /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-10mdkcustom/net with several *.ko files,
among them ath_pci.ko and ath_hal.ko. I expected to get these files in
my /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-10mdk directrory, am I right? If I try to modprobe
ath_pci I get a error message tellling me that ath_pci not found. insmod
ath_pci.ko complains about an invalid parameter -l. And device ath0 is
still not found.
Are my problems related to the missing ath0 and how can I install this? Or
is it some error in compiling and loading madwifi_pci? Or both? And yes, I
have the wireless extensions installed.

Knut

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