[Madwifi-users] Re: kernel upgrade woes

[Axel T. <Axel.Thimm@ATrpms.net>]

On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 10:07:20PM -0700, John Pedersen wrote:
> Thanks for the prompt response Pavel.
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> I did run dmeg and this popped out:
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> wlan: version magic '2.6.16-1.2122_FC5 586 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-4.1'=20
> should be '2.6.16-1.2122_FC5 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-4.1'
> ath_rate_sample: version magic '2.6.16-1.2122_FC5 586 REGPARM 4KSTACKS=20
> gcc-4.1' should be '2.6.16-1.2122_FC5 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-4.1'
> ath_pci: version magic '2.6.16-1.2122_FC5 586 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-4.1'=
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> should be '2.6.16-1.2122_FC5 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-4.1'
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> Any idea if this is significant.  I didn't think that the Intel arch=20
> variants were that important.  I also noted that this warning/error=20
> appeared twice when I ran dmesg.
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> Think I'll go back and look at the files available on the atrpms site=20
> and see if I just grabbed the wrong files (586 v. 686 arch).
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> Any other ideas?  Its beginning to look like building this is the better=
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> answer.

No, your first suspicion is correct, you just grabbed the wrong
packages. Remove them and install the ones for i686. Then proceed
according to the instructions in the wiki.

BTW using yum/apt/smart/... will always pull the correct packages for
you, just use

yum install foo foo-kmdl-`uname -r`

where <foo> is the desired software containing kernel modules (this
applies to madwifi, nvidia, qla2xxx, 3w-9xxx and so on).

> John
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> Pavel Roskin wrote:
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> >Hello!
> >
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> >
> >>There were no error messages in the install, but modprobe returned this:
> >>
> >>[root@traveler ~]# modprobe ath_pci
> >>WARNING: Error inserting wlan
> >>(/lib/modules/2.6.16-1.2122_FC5/updates/net/wlan.ko): Invalid module=20
> >>format
> >>WARNING: Error inserting ath_rate_sample
> >>(/lib/modules/2.6.16-1.2122_FC5/updates/net/ath_rate_sample.ko): Invalid
> >>module format
> >>FATAL: Error inserting ath_pci
> >>(/lib/modules/2.6.16-1.2122_FC5/updates/net/ath_pci.ko): Invalid module
> >>format
> >>
> >>I can still use wireless if I boot into the older kernel, since the
> >>older kernel modules are still present under /lib/modules/[kernel
> >>version]/updates/net.
> >>
> >>Can anyone tell me the likely causes of these error messages?
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> >>
> >
> >Probably the kernel and the modules were compliled by different versions=
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> >of gcc.
> >Run "dmesg" to see kernel messages.
> >
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> >
> >
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