On 7/8/06, Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 11:09:39AM -0700, Penguin Lover Mark Knecht squawked:
> Hi,
> Why would wireless no longer work after rebuilding the kernel to
> add USB OHCI support only?
>
Since you rebuilt the kernel, you'd probably need to recompile
ndiswrapper against the new kernel. I saw that you mentioned that you
did just that. Perhaps first remove ndis from module.autoload, and see
if you can modprobe it by hand? It could be that even though you
recompiled ndiswrapper, it was compiled against the wrong kernel
version or something, so the module cannot load?
This is the only thing that comes to mind right now.
The new kernel that you compiled, is it the same version? Or a
different one? If it is different, perhaps you can try (if you saved
it) booting into the old one and see if you can modprobe ndiswrapper
(The old one should still be in /lib/modules under the correct kernel
version).
Best,
W
Willie,
Thanks. I did at least recompile ndiswrapper before I wrote this
post. That alone did not fix it. The kernel was the same kernel -
Gentoo stable - so 2.6.16-gentoo-r9 I think.
I noticed that the machine was sort of sluggish with that kernel so
I built a new real-time one - 2.6.17-rt5 from the pro-audio overlay.
For that kernel I needed to build ndiswrapper for the first time,
which I did, and low and behold when I booted into that kernel
wireless did come up running right away so I think you're on the right
track but for somereason it didn't work for me on the earlier kernel.
I cannot explain why right now.
I do have some problems that I'm going to have to work out. I am
getting messages about 'device initiated installation' - or something
like that - early in the boot process. Later the kernel posts a
message telling me either net.eth0 or net.wlan0 cannot start until the
boot process completes. I checked rc-update show and I see that I'm
startign these in default, not boot, so I think what I'm doing is
correct but possibly coldplug or hotplug is doing something wrong the
way I'm configured.
Anyway - right now I have wireless connectivity, which is great,
but some problems persist that need to be addressed tomorrow.
Thanks much,
Mark
--
[email protected] mailing list
