I've just emerged from email hell starting with Neil's RAID collapse (Neil, I feel your pain), proceeding through a bloody upgrade of my primary server linus FC3 -> FC4 (a reinstall with repartitioning, actually, but no data loss thanks to good planning and back-ups), and an IP address change by those Cox suckers.
So I'm back, and I have this problem. My FC4 Toshiba laptop now refuses to find its wireless PCIMIA card. Here's the short version. While in FC3, the Toshiba connected with the atheros (madwifi) driver, although giving an "error 3 -- unable to reset" error when I brought ath0 up. I figured it was a slight incompatibility in the module/kernel compiles, and shined it on because, heck, it worked. All of this was with Airlink garbage -- card, router, etc. OK, after I did a reinstall of FC4 on the laptop, complete with all errata and updates from RH, the Airlink card just flat refused to work. I took it to the InstallFest where Gus gave me a clinic on diagnosis, but I was pressed for time and couldn't stay too long. The log messages when we plugged in the card said that it was unable to reset and quit. I decided that it was probably Airlink inadequacies, and bought a D-Link PCMCIA wireless card and a D-Link router, both of which were listed as madwifi slam-dunks in a copy of an article on Linux wireless. The D-Link router is now replacing the Airlink router (which in all fairness, never seemed to give me any trouble), but the new D-Link laptop card is crapping out exactly like the Airlink. Here is the dingbat from /var/log/messages when I plug the new card in: Feb 12 23:10:38 gypsy kernel: ath_hal: no version for "struct_module" found: kernel tainted. Feb 12 23:10:38 gypsy kernel: ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel. Feb 12 23:10:38 gypsy kernel: ath_hal: 0.9.14.9 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413) Feb 12 23:10:39 gypsy kernel: wlan: 0.8.6.0 (EXPERIMENTAL) Feb 12 23:10:39 gypsy kernel: ath_rate_sample: 1.2 Feb 12 23:10:39 gypsy kernel: ath_pci: 0.9.6.0 (EXPERIMENTAL) Feb 12 23:10:39 gypsy kernel: PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:00.0 (0000 -> 0002) Feb 12 23:10:39 gypsy kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 Feb 12 23:10:39 gypsy kernel: ath_attach: unable to attach hardware: 'Hardware didn't respond as expected' (HAL status 3) Feb 12 23:10:39 gypsy kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:02:00.0 disabled I've tried this with the madwifi rpm's for FC4 and also with my own compile of the latest cvs snapshot. Neither seems to work. Here are the present versions of kernel/madwifi: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ got madwifi madwifi-kmdl-2.6.14-1.1656_FC4-0.9.6.0-18.rhfc4.at [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ uname -a Linux gypsy 2.6.14-1.1656_FC4 #1 Thu Jan 5 22:13:22 EST 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux I'd be grateful for any insight on what I might be doing wrong. TIA, -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 Tcl/Tk Enthusiast -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
