The problem is, that the ath_hal module isn't loaded. In 2.6.15-25, doing "modprobe ath_pci" would load ath_hal as well and all was fine. Not so with the current kernel.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo modprobe -v ath_hal FATAL: Module ath_hal not found. Hm, why's that? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -la /lib/modules/`uname -r`/volatile/ insgesamt 18317 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 400 2006-07-23 00:21 . drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 568 2006-07-22 15:50 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 165272 2006-07-23 00:20 ath_hal.ko -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 815000 2006-07-23 00:20 fcdsl2.ko -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 890384 2006-07-23 00:20 fcdsl.ko -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 815081 2006-07-23 00:21 fcdslsl.ko -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 808538 2006-07-23 00:21 fcdslslusb.ko -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 809293 2006-07-23 00:21 fcdslusb2.ko -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 808569 2006-07-23 00:21 fcdslusba.ko -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 709490 2006-07-23 00:21 fcdslusb.ko -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 614555 2006-07-23 00:21 fcpci.ko -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8779 2006-07-23 00:21 fcpcmcia_cs.ko -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 606863 2006-07-23 00:21 fcpcmcia.ko -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 607657 2006-07-23 00:21 fcusb.ko -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 471141 2006-07-23 00:21 fglrx.ko -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 654348 2006-07-23 00:21 fxusb.ko -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2006-07-23 00:20 .mounted -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 208279 2006-07-23 00:21 new_ath_hal.ko -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5176266 2006-07-23 00:21 nvidia.ko -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4410619 2006-07-23 00:21 nvidia_legacy.ko It seems, modprobe doesn't look into this volatile directory? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo insmod /lib/modules/2.6.15-26-686/volatile/ath_hal.ko [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo modprobe -v ath_pci insmod /lib/modules/2.6.15-26-686/madwifi/ath_rate_sample.ko insmod /lib/modules/2.6.15-26-686/madwifi/ath_pci.ko So, when I manually load the module, I can then modprobe ath_pci and thus access the WLAN just fine. Thus I asume, that the real problem is, that modprobe doesn't check the volatile directory. Why does it not do this? -- Cannot load ath_pci from madwifi https://launchpad.net/bugs/53728 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
