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bpisciot

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From: Flyover Land

Registered: 2004-12-16

Posts: 78

Upgrade to new ck kernel - bye bye madwifi (SOLVED)

I made it through the enormo upgrade with only a few issues.  I was able to install and run a copy of madwifi that worked beautifully.  This morning, I did the mini-upgrade (mostly KDE, but also a new CK kernel).  After this, my madwifi connection has disappeared.  No ath0 available.  BTW, I'm using a Cisco 802.11a/b/g card.

So, I reinstall madwifi, then:

[root@bobarch bpisciot]# depmod -a
[root@bobarch bpisciot]# modprobe ath_pci
FATAL: Module ath_pci not found.

Here's my lsmod:

[root@bobarch bpisciot]# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
orinoco                42388  0
hermes                  6656  1 orinoco
pcmcia                 26272  0
ohci_hcd               20100  0
ehci_hcd               32904  0
parport_pc             26308  0
parport                33480  1 parport_pc
pcspkr                  3676  0
rtc                    10680  0
eepro100               28176  0
mii                     5248  1 eepro100
yenta_socket           23436  8
rsrc_nonstatic         12416  1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core            37012  3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
snd_intel8x0m          15940  1
i2c_i801                8204  0
uhci_hcd               32144  0
shpchp                 96260  0
pci_hotplug            25660  1 shpchp
i2c_i810                4868  0
i2c_algo_bit            9096  1 i2c_i810
i2c_core               17920  2 i2c_i801,i2c_algo_bit
intel_agp              21404  1
agpgart                29772  2 intel_agp
snd_intel8x0           30528  1
snd_ac97_codec         84988  2 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm_oss            50720  0
snd_mixer_oss          18048  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                84356  4 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              22276  1 snd_pcm
snd                    48356  11 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore               7648  1 snd
snd_page_alloc          8840  3 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
usbcore               114044  4 ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
tsdev                   6336  0
joydev                  8640  0
evdev                   7936  0

Can anyone help me get my ath0 back?  Thanks.

Bob Pisciotta

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"You're only young once, but you can always be immature."

bpisciot

Member

From: Flyover Land

Registered: 2004-12-16

Posts: 78

Re: Upgrade to new ck kernel - bye bye madwifi (SOLVED)

Sorry for the noise.  I very stupidly updated from the madwifi package that was compiled against the previous CK kernel--rather than remake the package from scratch with the PKGBUILD.  Of course that won't work.

So, I took my existing PKGBUILD, re-made the package, updated via pacman, and BOOM, my wireless is back.

Bob Pisciotta

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"You're only young once, but you can always be immature."