** Description changed:
Madwifi Drivers not working after last two days upgrade - 8.04.3
09-03-2009
Compaq CQ50-139NR running Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS using Atheros AR242x.
My madwifi drivers will not install after the updates from the last
two days. The module ath_pci does not install.
Here are the error messages and Kernel info.
la...@ubuntu:~$ uname -r
2.6.24-24-generic
la...@ubuntu:~$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu 2.6.24-24-generic #1 SMP Tue Aug 18 17:04:53 UTC 2009 i686
GNU/Linux
la...@ubuntu:~$dmesg tail
[ 37.439203] loop: module loaded
[ 37.526304] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[ 37.581158] ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
[ 37.582784] ath_hal: 0.9.18.0 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112,
RF2413, RF5413)
[ 37.873986] ath_pci: disagrees about version of symbol _ath_hal_attach
[ 37.873991] ath_pci: Unknown symbol _ath_hal_attach
[ 37.874097] ath_pci: disagrees about version of symbol
ath_hal_process_noisefloor
[ 37.874099] ath_pci: Unknown symbol ath_hal_process_noisefloor
[ 37.874523] ath_pci: disagrees about version of symbol ath_hal_computetxtime
[ 37.874525] ath_pci: Unknown symbol ath_hal_computetxtime
[ 37.874795] ath_pci: disagrees about version of symbol ath_hal_mhz2ieee
[ 37.874797] ath_pci: Unknown symbol ath_hal_mhz2ieee
[ 37.874990] ath_pci: Unknown symbol _ath_hal_detach
[ 37.875599] ath_pci: Unknown symbol ath_hal_print_decoded_register
[ 37.876191] ath_pci: disagrees about version of symbol ath_hal_init_channels
[ 37.876192] ath_pci: Unknown symbol ath_hal_init_channels
[ 37.876447] ath_pci: disagrees about version of symbol
ath_hal_getwirelessmodes
[ 37.876449] ath_pci: Unknown symbol ath_hal_getwirelessmodes
[ 37.919694] Adding 6658932k swap on /dev/sda4. Priority:-1 extents:1
across:6658932k
[ 38.555242] EXT3 FS on sda3, internal journal
[ 39.720578] ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
[ 40.179698] No dock devices found.
[ 41.757090] apm: BIOS not found.
[ 41.852012] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
[ 42.107757] audit(1251992244.761:2): type=1502 operation=inode_permission
requested_mask=a:: denied_mask=a:: name=/dev/tty pid=5145
profile=/usr/sbin/cupsd namespace=default
[ 43.377151] vboxdrv: Trying to deactivate the NMI watchdog permanently...
[ 43.377158] vboxdrv: Successfully done.
[ 43.377162] vboxdrv: Found 2 processor cores.
[ 43.377236] vboxdrv: fAsync=0 offMin=0x3e4 offMax=0x20ac
[ 43.377305] vboxdrv: TSC mode is 'synchronous', kernel timer mode is
'normal'.
[ 43.377309] vboxdrv: Successfully loaded version 3.0.4 (interface
0x000e).
[ 45.152790] r8169: eth0: link down
[ 45.290971] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.11
[ 45.291286] NET: Registered protocol family 31
[ 45.291291] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[ 45.291296] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[ 45.349157] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.9
[ 45.349164] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[ 45.484884] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[ 45.484900] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[ 45.484903] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.8
[ 49.131045] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[ 49.162560] ACPI: PCI Interrupt :00:02.0[A] - GSI 16 (level, low) -
IRQ 21
[ 49.162574] PCI: Setting latency timer of device :00:02.0 to 64
[ 49.162681] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20060119 on minor 0
[ 50.246528] set status page addr 0x03f7f000
[ 66.070597] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 66.071023] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
[ 66.071700] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 75.759011] CPU0 attaching NULL sched-domain.
[ 75.759023] CPU1 attaching NULL sched-domain.
[ 75.790283] CPU0 attaching sched-domain:
[ 75.790292] domain 0: span 03
[ 75.790295] groups: 01 02
[ 75.790301] CPU1 attaching sched-domain:
[ 75.790304] domain 0: span 03
[ 75.790307] groups: 02 01
[ 89.889684] usb 7-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
[ 90.065806] usb 7-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 90.246750] usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
[ 90.260896] input: Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse as
/devices/pci:00/:00:1d.1/usb7/7-1/7-1:1.0/input/input8
[ 90.297492] input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical
Mouse] on usb-:00:1d.1-1
[ 90.297523] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[ 90.297530] /build/buildd/linux-2.6.24/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c:
v2.6:USB HID core driver
[ 300.175887] r8169: eth0: link down
[ 300.179375] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 319.793654] usb 7-1: USB disconnect, address 2
[ 851.546017] ath_pci: disagrees about version of symbol _ath_hal_attach
[ 851.546026] ath_pci: Unknown symbol _ath_hal_attach
[ 851.546252] ath_pci: disagrees about version of symbol
ath_hal_process_noisefloor
[ 851.546256] ath_pci: Unknown symbol ath_hal_process_noisefloor
[ 851.547147]
