Re: Problems installing madwifi_pci, ath0 missing

From: Joachim Mæland (jm-news_at_profine.net)
Date: 03/28/05

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    On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 12:07:14 +0200, Knut wrote:

    > 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?

    Yes.

    Pleas read the README file and locate "KERNELRELEASE".

    > 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.

    When you're able to load the module driver(s), you can start looking for
    ath0... 

    -- 
Regards/Med vennlig hilsen 
Joachim Mæland 
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. 
-Mario Andretti
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