Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1438 mails)

["David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andre den Oudsten wrote:
> David C. Rankin schreef:
> > 11:02 alchemy~/linux/scripts/test> ifconfig | grep encap:
> > ath0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1B:9E:7C:F6:E7
> > eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1B:38:AF:36:B8
> > lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
> > wifi0     Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 
> > 00-1B-9E-7C-F6-E7-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
> >   
> linux-zpoq:/home/andredo # ifconfig | grep encap
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1B:38:5B:9B:49
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback

        Ahh... Evidence that "the game's afoot!" Obviously you have no wireless
interface created by madwifi yet. That is exactly what I used to see before I
got the right madwifi rpms installed.

        Hmm.... Something isn't right anymore:

11:15 alchemy~/linux/madwifi/newversion/schmolle/src> rpmbuild --rebuild
madwifi-r3725+AR5007EG-2.2.src.rpm
Installing madwifi-r3725+AR5007EG-2.2.src.rpm
warning: InstallSourcePackage: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 31812260
error: line 29: Unknown tag: %internal_kmp_error

        Andre -- I posted a second message to the list on this issue and to the
madwifi package maintainers. This may be the problem. For some reason, the
.src.rpm isn't building anymore under the updated kernel. This doesn't make
sense, but it is happening.


> >      You're sure you tried manually creating ath0 with:
> >
> > # wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode sta
> >   
> unknown command

Try:

which wlanconfig

11:29 alchemy~/linux/madwifi/newversion/schmolle/src> which wlanconfig
/usr/bin/wlanconfig

> >      Show me again the output of lsmod | grep ath:
> >
> > 11:10 alchemy/home/david] # lsmod | grep ath
> > ath_rate_sample        31232  1
> > ath_pci               255168  0
> > wlan                  265840  5 
> > wlan_wep,wlan_scan_sta,ath_rate_sample,ath_pci
> > ath_hal               346896  3 ath_rate_sample,ath_pci
> >   
> linux-zpoq:/home/andredo # lsmod | grep ath
> ath_pci               255168  0
> wlan                  265840  1 ath_pci
> ath_hal               346896  1 ath_pci
> ath5k                 118532  0
> mac80211              220568  1 ath5k

You still have the ath5k module loaded, that could also be the entire problem. 
So:

rmmod ath5k && depmod -A

then check

lsmod | grep ath

and make sure there is no ath5k module anymore


> >      and a current locate ath_pci.ko
> >   
> linux-zpoq:/home/andredo # locate ath_pci.ko
> bash: locate: command not found

You don't have the locate tool installed (very useful tool -- must have)

zypper in findutils-locate


> > [11:11 alchemy/home/david] # locate ath_pci.ko
> > /lib/modules/2.6.25.18-0.2-default/weak-updates/ath/ath_pci.ko
> > /lib/modules/2.6.25.5-1.1-default/updates/ath/ath_pci.ko
> > /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/2.6.25.5-1.1-debug/updates/ath/ath_pci.ko.debug
> >
> >      and then an ls -al of the current ath_pci.ko file:
> >
> > [11:12 alchemy/home/david] # ls -al
> > /lib/modules/2.6.25.18-0.2-default/weak-updates/ath/ath_pci.ko
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 56 2008-10-28 03:48
> > /lib/modules/2.6.25.18-0.2-default/weak-updates/ath/ath_pci.ko ->
> > /lib/modules/2.6.25.5-1.1-default/updates/ath/ath_pci.ko
> >
> >      and finally a ls -al of the link target:
> >
> > [11:13 alchemy/home/david] # ls -al
>
> > /lib/modules/2.6.25.5-1.1-default/updates/ath/ath_pci.ko
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 430600 2008-06-18 12:51
> > /lib/modules/2.6.25.5-1.1-default/updates/ath/ath_pci.ko
> >   
> I changed to
> linux-zpoq:/home/andredo # cd /lib/modules
> linux-zpoq:/lib/modules # ls -al
> totaal 28
> drwxr-xr-x  7 root root 4096 okt 31 13:14 .
> drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 okt 28 10:23 ..
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 okt 28 10:46 2.6.25.18-0.2-debug
> drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4096 nov 11 11:00 2.6.25.18-0.2-default
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 okt 28 10:46 2.6.25.18-0.2-lockdep
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 okt 28 10:46 2.6.25.18-0.2-xen
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 jun 18 19:51 2.6.25.5-1.1-default
>
> >      At least with this exercise, we have found another possibility -- that 
> > you are missing the sym link to weak updates
> >   
> In Konquerer I found a line 
> /lib/modules/2.6.25.18-0.2-default/weak-updates/ath with a link to ath_pci.ko

Try getting rid of the ath5k module again while we wait on word on whey the
madwifi package no longer builds from source rpm. We may have stumbled onto a
bug. I'm just glad I got madwifi installed before the last kernel update.....

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