> From: Jan Engelhardt
> On Aug 21 2007 10:43, David C. Rankin wrote:
>
> In one of my less brilliant moves, I thought I would try "system
>update" in Yast on 10.2 on my Toshiba P35 laptop. The kernel was
>updated to 2.6.22.2-ccj52-default. The first major problem is that the
>updated kernel will not load the atheros mad-wifi driver. The kernel
>module is still there under
>/lib/modules/2.6.18.8-0.3-default/updates/ath/ath_pci.ko but does not
>exist under 2.6.22.2-ccj52-default. Yast shows mad-wifi installed, but
>the ath_pci.ko module cannot be loaded with either modprobe or insmod:
>
>10:25 Rankin-P35a:/home/david # modprobe ath_pci
>FATAL: Module ath_pci not found.
>10:25 Rankin-P35a:/home/david # insmod
>/lib/modules/2.6.18.8-0.3-default/updates/ath/ath_pci.ko
>insmod: error inserting
>'/lib/modules/2.6.18.8-0.3-default/updates/ath/ath_pci.ko': -1 Invalid
>module format
That's like trying to run an Windows 95 driver in Windows XP.
I just checked again and it seems Madwifi (ath_pci) finally updated their
module to 2.6.22, so I can finally build it. Be patient.
Jan
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Thanks Jan,
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