Re: Issue to see ath0 after building madwifi on Debian

Sorry about that.

I'm progressing but I more and more sure that it's linked to modules which are not loaded at boot.

I have fixed all issues on unknown symbols when I have loaded the cfg80211 module. It could be possible that by default I do not have all modules loaded to manage wireless support.

For the moment, I have manually loaded cfg80211, wlan, ath_* and all modules are loaded without error. I still not have my interface seen but issues are fixed.

Seb

-----Original Message-----
From: Pavel Roskin [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 3:15 PM
To: Cayetanot, Sebastien
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [Madwifi-users] Issue to see ath0 after building madwifi on Debian

Hi Sebastien,

Quoting "Cayetanot, Sebastien" <[email protected]>:

> Ok , I have patched the source code of the madwifi driver to replace  
> skb_append by skb_queue_after and the build succeed.
>
> Now, when I load the ath_hal module, I got a reply in dmesg with:   
> ath_hal: 0.9.18.0 (AR5210....)

It would be nice if you wrote everything in one message.  It's hard to understand what you have downloaded and patched.  I believe you should not have to patch the current snapshot from the 0.9.4 branch:

http://snapshots.madwifi-project.org/madwifi-0.9.4-current.tar.gz

If you are having compile problems with it, please let me know.  I'll try to fix it.

> But when loading the ath_pci module, I got a list of "unknown symbol  
>  ieeexxx" and "disagrees about version of symbol and FATAL error to   
> load the module

Please don't rephrase error messages.  It makes it harder to find out what is going on.  It's better that you give one error message exactly as is.

I believe you may have some modules loaded from another version of MadWifi.  You can run madwifi-unload or reboot the system to make sure those modules are not loaded.  I hope you are using "make install" to install the modules.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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