Ath9k driver

JD jd1008 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 11 00:55:26 UTC 2011


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


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