HOWTO: Latest Madwifi driver

[cwestpha]

I do everything stated but I get the fallowing back:

root@I8000:/home/ # modprobe ath_pci
FATAL: Error inserting ath_pci (/lib/modules/2.6.10-5-386/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath_pci.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)

Any ideas?

[jdong]

Post output to the dmesg command.


this HOWTO seems unsafe and incorrect. Compiling against the raw Ubuntu source tree doesn't necessarily mean the binary modules will be compatible with the various Ubuntu kernel.

For example, a module for the i386 kernel will not insert into an i686 kernel, and so on.

You should really compile against your correct version of linux-headers , such as linux-headers-k7.

to the author: I highly recommend you redo your howto using this method, instead.

[cwestpha]

Post output to the dmesg command.


this HOWTO seems unsafe and incorrect. Compiling against the raw Ubuntu source tree doesn't necessarily mean the binary modules will be compatible with the various Ubuntu kernel.

For example, a module for the i386 kernel will not insert into an i686 kernel, and so on.

You should really compile against your correct version of linux-headers , such as linux-headers-k7.

to the author: I highly recommend you redo your howto using this method, instead.

I am a newbie... so how would I do that exactly? (hay atleast I could modprobe without help)

[jdong]

Just skip step two. If you already did it, do an rm -f /usr/src/linux to remove that symlink. It's simply not necessary. Madwifi's Makefile may have to be edited to reflect the /lib/modules/KERNELVERSIONS/build (or /include) directories, but I'll turn that back over to the HOWTO author, as I don't use Madwifi.

[kleeman]

I have edited the howto to make sure that the correct headers packages are installed. If this does not work let me know. I use the 686-smp kernel with the corresponding packages and had no problems and did not need to edit the makefile. Let me know if you have problems like that described what your kernel version is exactly (do uname -a to find out) and which kernel headers you have installed.

[kleeman]

To cwestpha: Are you sure you copied all 9 files into your /lib/modules directory structure as outlined in the howto? Your error message doesn't sound like a version conflict as suggested by jdong, it sounds more like the module is missing helper applications i.e. other modules. However just to make sure check carefully that your kernel package matches your kernel headers package (step 1 in the reedited howto).

[aranbanjo]

Hi guys,
thank you for this howto which was very helpful in Hoary.
As you said, this card works out of the box in Breezy, but I would prefere a custom kernel
I would like to set madwifi as a module but I didn't find it in menuconfig
Do I need to install linux-headers of my custom kernel?

[aranbanjo]

Hi guys,
...
Do I need to install linux-headers of my custom kernel?

Yep, just do it!
Downloaded the latest driver and installed making

# cd madwifi
# export KERNELPATH=/usr/src/linux-source-'your version'
# export KERNELRELEASE='your custom kernel'
# make
# make install

reboot.
Cheers