Ath9k driver

[Jarod Wilson]

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 at wilsonet.com