Ath9k driver

[JD]

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/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k_hw.ko):
Invalid argument
WARNING: Error inserting ath9k_common
(/lib/modules/2.6.37-1.fc13.i686/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k_common.ko):
Invalid argument
WARNING: Error inserting compat
(/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
FATAL: Error inserting ath9k
(/lib/modules/2.6.37-1.fc13.i686/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k.ko):
Invalid argument

[JD]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 4:55 PM, JD <jd1008(a)gmail.com&gt; 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/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k_hw.ko):
>  Invalid argument
>  WARNING: Error inserting ath9k_common
>  (/lib/modules/2.6.37-1.fc13.i686/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k_common.ko):
>  Invalid argument
>  WARNING: Error inserting compat
>  (/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
>  FATAL: Error inserting ath9k
>  (/lib/modules/2.6.37-1.fc13.i686/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k.ko):
>  Invalid argument
>
>
>  
I forgot to attach the messages from output of dmesg.
Here they are:
cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
ath: disagrees about version of symbol wiphy_apply_custom_regulatory
ath: Unknown symbol wiphy_apply_custom_regulatory (err -22)
ath: disagrees about version of symbol freq_reg_info
ath: Unknown symbol freq_reg_info (err -22)
cfg80211: World regulatory domain updated:
cfg80211:     (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain,
max_eirp)
cfg80211:     (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
cfg80211:     (2457000 KHz - 2482000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
cfg80211:     (2474000 KHz - 2494000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
cfg80211:     (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
cfg80211:     (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
ath: disagrees about version of symbol wiphy_apply_custom_regulatory
ath: Unknown symbol wiphy_apply_custom_regulatory (err -22)
ath: disagrees about version of symbol freq_reg_info
ath: Unknown symbol freq_reg_info (err -22)

[Jon Masters]

On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 17:33 -0800, JD wrote:

>  ath: disagrees about version of symbol wiphy_apply_custom_regulatory
>  ath: Unknown symbol wiphy_apply_custom_regulatory (err -22)
>  ath: disagrees about version of symbol freq_reg_info
>  ath: Unknown symbol freq_reg_info (err -22) 
For some reason the kernel you are running and the module(s) you are
trying to load are not compatible. Did you build this kernel yourself,
rebuild it, or otherwise do something to it?

Please let us know the output of "uname -a".

Jon.

[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(a)wilsonet.com