Re: [Madwifi-users] kernel upgrade woes

[Pavel R. <pr...@gn...>]

Hello!

> 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 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?

Probably the kernel and the modules were compliled by different versions of gcc.
 Run "dmesg" to see kernel messages.

> I'm
> trying to avoid building from source, since I find it pretty convenient
> to use yumex to keep my machine patched up.

The middle way would be to compile source packages using rpmbuild.  This way,
you compile for the current kernel, but you install packages.

--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin