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murffatksig

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From: Atl

Registered: 2004-05-17

Posts: 358

can't modprobe madwifi

I'm trying to get my netgear WG511T working on a dell inspiron 4150.  At first I installed arch with the stock 2.6.10-ARCH kernel.  I couldnt compile the PKGBUILD I found in the forums, but I could compile the source when i got it from CVS.  However when I tried to modprobe ath_pci i get unresolved symbols error.  When i tried to restart hotplug i got this:

...can't load module ath_pci
missing kernel or user mode driver ath_pci

I realized that maybe the madwifi source i downloaded is about a month old (I had it saved on a different partition).  But i'm getting errors trying to log in and get the newest sources.

After all that, i tried building my own kernel and got the exact same problems.  Any ideas?

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phrakture

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From: behind you

Registered: 2003-10-29

Posts: 7,879

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Re: can't modprobe madwifi

yeah, just building a module isn't enough...

I'm assuming you installed the module, right?

after that you need to run "depmod -a" so the kernel can determine what modules it can load.

try it after that

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murffatksig

Member

From: Atl

Registered: 2004-05-17

Posts: 358

Re: can't modprobe madwifi

Yea... im an idiout..... i forgot to run

make install

one of those little things that'll drive ya crazy all day

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