[Madwifi-users] A problem about "wlanconfig: ioctl: No such device"

[Eddy Z. Z. <ed...@cs...>]

Hi, List,

I am a newbie to the Madwifi list. I came across one problem while I am
trying to install my wireless card.

I downloaded Madwifi 0.9.3.3, and I compiled it by "make", then "make
install", with no problem at all.

Then, I typed "modprobe ath_pci", again no problem, but when I type
"wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode sta", it pops out the error
message, "wlanconfig: ioctl: No such device".

So I checked my dmesg: and I see the following:

"ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
ath_hal: 0.9.18.0 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
wlan: 0.8.4.2 (0.9.3.3)
ath_pci: 0.9.4.5 (0.9.3.3)
PCI: Enabling device 0000:03:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:00.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:03:00.0 to 64
wifi%d: unable to attach hardware: 'Hardware revision not supported' (HAL
status 13)
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:03:00.0 disabled
SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.1.6
DST=224.0.0.251LEN=64 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP
SPT=5353 DPT=5353 LEN=44

SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.1.6
DST=224.0.0.251LEN=64 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP
SPT=5353 DPT=5353 LEN=44

"

iwconfig ives me:
"
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.
"

When I do a "ifconfig -a", I don't have a wifi0 interface.  And when I do a
"lspci -ns 02:04.0", there is no output at all.

Anyone have any idea about how I can do next? Thank you.

Eddy