Hey everyone. I've seen this discussed on the forums before but I have a unique problem that I can't seem to find a solution for.
I recently went from Red Hat 9 to Gentoo 1.4 [Stage 1]. My Red Hat kernel was 2.4.20-8 and my Gentoo kernel is 2.4.20-gentoo-r9. I have a cheap SMC PCI 802.11b wireless card which uses a PCMCIA chip. Under Red Hat, I had this card working. When I try and reproduce what I did before (and when I follow the tips in the forums), it doesn't go quite as planned. As far as I can remember (it was a while ago), to get my card working under Red Hat all I did was compile the source, enable PCMCIA in the kernel, recompile kernel, put the 8211.o module in a /lib/modules dir and then insmod 8211.o. Now, however, I get an error telling me 8211.o was compiled for kernel 2.4.19 and it asks me if I want to continue. If I do want to continue, I have to use 'insmod -f 8211' to force it to work at which point it warns me I'm tainting the kernel (no license) and warns about unresolved symbols. The forum threads I've visited said the unresolved symbols were normal but said nothing about the 2.4.19 / 2.4.20 error. If I'm downloading the source and compiling the code, shouldn't it be compiled for 2.4.20? depmod -a gives me the following: depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r9/kernel/drivers/net/8211.o After doing this, the howto's I've been to tell me to 'iwconfig' and see my wireless card (using the wireless-tools package). The funny thing is, after I insmod I can see that I have an eth1 that wasn't there before but it tells me eth1 has "no wireless extensions." When I ifconfig eth1, I can see it has a MAC address and I can bring it up. The problem is I can't set any wireless channels or anything on it using iwconfig. If anyone has any tips on the compiling/kernel errors or some advice on how to get this working or a link with my specific problem (I tried Google and the forums but of course I may have missed something) please let me know. Thanks. -- Chris Wanstrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.badstatic.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
