Wireless WOes

All,

I was pointed towards this newsgroup by alt.os.linux. I wondered if
someone could help me please.

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

When I run modprobe ath-pci 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

I did install the madwifi.tar and run make & make install. This seemed
to compile without any errors but the modprobe gives me the same
result. Completely lost with nowhere to go at the minute

Thank you.

Regards

Darren

On 30 Oct, 20:23, "Arthur Hagen" <a... DeleteThis @broomstick.com> wrote:
> Darren Green <darrenfgr... DeleteThis @tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>
> [chop]
>
>
>
> > When I run modprobe ath-pci 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
>
> Your kernel doesn't appear to match the modules. Likely reasons:
>
> - You forgot to mount /boot before doing "make install" in /usr/src/linux.
> - You installed from /usr/src/linux-2.6.22-gentoo-r8, but didn't change the
> "linux" symlink in /usr/src to point to this directory ("ln -fs
> /usr/src/linux-2.6.22-gentoo-r8 /usr/src/linux"), making 3rd party modules
> compile against a different kernel version.
>
> Regards,
> --
> *Art

Art,

Can I thank you and the previous poster for the assistance pointing me
in the right direction.

I aim to try and re-compile against a different Kernel tomorrow. I
would typically use Genkernel as I am not that comfortable with
compiling the Kernel in the more traditional manner.

Could I ask how I would determine the correct kernel version to
compile against though. I have what I believe to me the most upto date
kernel on my PC.

Regards

Darren