Ath9k driver

[JD]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 4:55 PM, JD <jd1008 at gmail.com> 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)