Wireless Woes

Hi.

As a newbie I have been trying to setup my Atheros Wireless card following
one or two of the Gentoo Wiki's.
I emerged a number of items, wireless tools etc but to no avail. When I run
'lspci' I receive the following:

00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co Ltd
RTL-8139/8139C/813C+ (rev 10) - My 10/100 Ethernet Card
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc AR5212 802.11abg
NIC (rev 01) - My Wireless Card

An ifconfig shows:

eth0 - MY LAN Ethernet card present in use
l0 - My loopback address

If I do a iwconfig I get:

lo no wireless extensions
eth0 no wireless extensions
sit0 no wireless extensions

I e-mailed one of the Linux forums and was asked if I had run 'modprobe
ath-pci' which I hadn't. When I do I get the following result:

Warning: Error inserting ath_ha1
(/lib/modules/2.6.22-gentoo-r8/net/ath_ha1.ko): invalid module format
Warning : Error inserting wlan (/lib/modules/2.6.22-gentoo-r8/net/wlan.ko):
invalid module format
: Error inserting ath_pci (/lib/modules/2.6.22-gentoo-r8/net/ath_pci.ko) :
invalid module format

Can anyone point me in the right direction please so that I can resolve this
error.

Regards

Darren

Darren Green wrote:

> Hi.
>
> As a newbie I have been trying to setup my Atheros Wireless card following
> one or two of the Gentoo Wiki's.
> I emerged a number of items, wireless tools etc but to no avail. When I
> run 'lspci' I receive the following:
>
> 00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co Ltd
> RTL-8139/8139C/813C+ (rev 10) - My 10/100 Ethernet Card
> 00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc AR5212 802.11abg
> NIC (rev 01) - My Wireless Card
>
> An ifconfig shows:
>
> eth0 - MY LAN Ethernet card present in use
> l0 - My loopback address
>
> If I do a iwconfig I get:
>
> lo no wireless extensions
> eth0 no wireless extensions
> sit0 no wireless extensions
>
> I e-mailed one of the Linux forums and was asked if I had run 'modprobe
> ath-pci' which I hadn't. When I do I get the following result:
>
> Warning: Error inserting ath_ha1
> (/lib/modules/2.6.22-gentoo-r8/net/ath_ha1.ko): invalid module format
> Warning : Error inserting wlan
> (/lib/modules/2.6.22-gentoo-r8/net/wlan.ko): invalid module format
> : Error inserting ath_pci (/lib/modules/2.6.22-gentoo-r8/net/ath_pci.ko) :
> invalid module format
>
> Can anyone point me in the right direction please so that I can resolve
> this error.
>
> Regards
>
> Darren


Darren, I am not a Gentoo user so I need to ask a question first. Does
Gentoo use repositories to store additional programs on the net? If it
does, download "madwifi" and then try to install you wireless.

It really will get easier, when I first started installing mine I wondered
if I had suddenly taken "stupid" pills. The users group is a good place
for information, but what really helped me was "someone with skin on". In
this case my daughter who lives about 900 miles away. There are a
few "niceities" that they will point out as you go through that the rest
of us would overlook.

Deb

On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:02:42 +0000, Darren Green wrote:

> Hi.
>
> As a newbie I have been trying to setup my Atheros Wireless card following
> one or two of the Gentoo Wiki's.
> I emerged a number of items, wireless tools etc but to no avail. When I run
> 'lspci' I receive the following:
>
> 00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co Ltd
> RTL-8139/8139C/813C+ (rev 10) - My 10/100 Ethernet Card
> 00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc AR5212 802.11abg
> NIC (rev 01) - My Wireless Card
>
> An ifconfig shows:
>
> eth0 - MY LAN Ethernet card present in use
> l0 - My loopback address
>
> If I do a iwconfig I get:
>
> lo no wireless extensions
> eth0 no wireless extensions
> sit0 no wireless extensions
>
> I e-mailed one of the Linux forums and was asked if I had run 'modprobe
> ath-pci' which I hadn't. When I do I get the following result:
>
> Warning: Error inserting ath_ha1
> (/lib/modules/2.6.22-gentoo-r8/net/ath_ha1.ko): invalid module format
> Warning : Error inserting wlan (/lib/modules/2.6.22-gentoo-r8/net/wlan.ko):
> invalid module format
> : Error inserting ath_pci (/lib/modules/2.6.22-gentoo-r8/net/ath_pci.ko) :
> invalid module format
>
> Can anyone point me in the right direction please so that I can resolve this
> error.
>
> Regards
>
> Darren


FWIW - you might try alt.os.linux.gentoo and/or comp.os.linux.networking.

ray wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:02:42 +0000, Darren Green wrote:
>
>> Hi.
>>
>> As a newbie I have been trying to setup my Atheros Wireless card following
>> one or two of the Gentoo Wiki's.
>> I emerged a number of items, wireless tools etc but to no avail. When I run
>> 'lspci' I receive the following:
>>
>> 00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co Ltd
>> RTL-8139/8139C/813C+ (rev 10) - My 10/100 Ethernet Card
>> 00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc AR5212 802.11abg
>> NIC (rev 01) - My Wireless Card
>>
>> An ifconfig shows:
>>
>> eth0 - MY LAN Ethernet card present in use
>> l0 - My loopback address
>>
>> If I do a iwconfig I get:
>>
>> lo no wireless extensions
>> eth0 no wireless extensions
>> sit0 no wireless extensions
>>
>> I e-mailed one of the Linux forums and was asked if I had run 'modprobe
>> ath-pci' which I hadn't. When I do I get the following result:
>>
>> Warning: Error inserting ath_ha1
>> (/lib/modules/2.6.22-gentoo-r8/net/ath_ha1.ko): invalid module format
>> Warning : Error inserting wlan (/lib/modules/2.6.22-gentoo-r8/net/wlan.ko):
>> invalid module format
>> : Error inserting ath_pci (/lib/modules/2.6.22-gentoo-r8/net/ath_pci.ko) :
>> invalid module format
>>
>> Can anyone point me in the right direction please so that I can resolve this
>> error.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Darren
>
>
> FWIW - you might try alt.os.linux.gentoo and/or comp.os.linux.networking.
>
Thank you, will re-post there.

> I e-mailed one of the Linux forums and was asked if I had run 'modprobe
> ath-pci' which I hadn't. When I do I get the following result:
>
> Warning: Error inserting ath_ha1
> (/lib/modules/2.6.22-gentoo-r8/net/ath_ha1.ko): invalid module format
> Warning : Error inserting wlan (/lib/modules/2.6.22-gentoo-r8/net/wlan.ko):
> invalid module format
> : Error inserting ath_pci (/lib/modules/2.6.22-gentoo-r8/net/ath_pci.ko) :
> invalid module format
>
> Can anyone point me in the right direction please so that I can resolvethis
> error.

IIRC, that error occurs when the module you're trying to insert is
compiled for a different kernel version than the one you're running.
Perhaps try to run a "make modules && make modules_install" in your most
recent Linux kernel folder (Should be linked to by the /usr/src/linux
symlink)


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"Alexander Krivács Schrøder" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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Can I thanks everyone who responded to me on this.

I posted to one of the Gentoo forums and had a couple of responses which I
am about to see if I can implement. Ended up initially trying to upgrade my
Kernel but lot's of googling has suggested that this wasn't the thing to do.

I am preparing to re-compile my original Kernel (2.6.22-r8) and then I will
do a make modules && make modules_install. Following this I will follow the
madwifi guide again and see how far I get.

BTW I do have PC Linux on my 1st HDD, Gentoo is on a 2nd disk. The main
reason for installing it was to see if I could get a test of Cisco Netflow
Tools working. I had some compile errors a while ago on Suse and a friend
recommended Gentoo to me. I know it's going to take me a long time to learn
Linux but I'm patient!

Regards

Darren

Darren Green wrote:
> "Alexander Krivács Schrøder" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:4728fa3d$0$16459$(E-Mail Removed) e...
>
> Can I thanks everyone who responded to me on this.
>
> I posted to one of the Gentoo forums and had a couple of responses which I
> am about to see if I can implement. Ended up initially trying to upgrade my
> Kernel but lot's of googling has suggested that this wasn't the thing to do.
>
> I am preparing to re-compile my original Kernel (2.6.22-r8) and then I will
> do a make modules && make modules_install. Following this I will follow the
> madwifi guide again and see how far I get.

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_MadWifi_Install

emerge -pv madwifi-ng madwifi-ng-tools





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//Aho

Darren Green wrote:
> "Alexander Krivács Schrøder" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:4728fa3d$0$16459$(E-Mail Removed) e...
>
> Can I thanks everyone who responded to me on this.
>
> I posted to one of the Gentoo forums and had a couple of responses which I
> am about to see if I can implement. Ended up initially trying to upgrade my
> Kernel but lot's of googling has suggested that this wasn't the thing to do.
>
> I am preparing to re-compile my original Kernel (2.6.22-r8) and then I will
> do a make modules && make modules_install. Following this I will follow the
> madwifi guide again and see how far I get.

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_MadWifi_Install

emerge -pv madwifi-ng madwifi-ng-tools


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//Aho