Re: [gentoo-user] MADWIFI driver...

[Steve]

Grant wrote:
The only module you need to autoload is ath_pci.  The kernel option
you must be missing is:
 

That is a surprise - I used the same card under FreeBSD and that 
definitely also needed ATH_HAL - but I bow to your greater experience 
with Gentoo... I'm guessing from the output from dmesg that ath_hal is 
actually loaded - though it is not explicitly listed.

Device Drivers -> Networking support -> Wireless LAN -> Wireless LAN 
drivers
 

Ah-ha... That was an obvious error on my part... (I'll learn to read one 
of these days!) I've now enabled Wireless LAN drivers (though none of 
the sub-options) and I've made a bit of progress (there are far fewer 
error messages - though it is still broken...)  The output from dmesg 
now reads like this:
--
ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
ath_hal: 0.9.14.9 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413)
wlan: 0.8.4.5 (EXPERIMENTAL)
ath_rate_onoe: 1.0
ath_pci: Unknown symbol ieee80211_ioctl
--
Maybe there is something else I need to enable in my kernel config?

There is probably another one if your wireless card is PCMCIA.  You
don't need the WAN support.
 

I'm using a DLink DWL-G510 (PCI card) - so PCMCIA shouldn't be relevant 
to me.

Steve

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