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(a)wilsonet.com