madwifi drivers doesn't work in 2.6.12-6-686

[joe]

The madwifi driver does not work

modprobe -vv ath_pci says:

insmod /lib/modules/2.6.12-6-686/kernel/drivers/volatile/ath_hal.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.12-6-686/kernel/drivers/volatile/wlan.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.12-6-686/kernel/drivers/volatile/ath_rate_sample.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.12-6-686/kernel/drivers/volatile/ath_pci.ko

that means the drivers are build correctly but dmesg says only
and why will ath_rate_sample.ko be loaded it should be something like
ath_rate_onoe.ko
and where is the 80211.ko

[4294840.753000] ACPI-0700: *** Error: acpi_ev_gpe_dispatch: No handler or
method for GPE[ B], disabling event
[4294841.449000] linkme: no version for "struct_module" found: kernel tainted.
[4294841.450000] linkme: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
[4294841.462000] ath_hal: 0.9.14.9 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413)

the card is an D-Link DWL-G650 with:
0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg
NIC (rev 01)

the Card worked with latest drivers in 2.6.10 and selfcompiled with 2.6.12-1

iwconfig says:

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

irda0 no wireless extensions.

seems that ath0 is missing :-(

any ideas and what's up with that new "build-the-true-modules-at-bootup" system
crazy idea to not provide new packages for every new kernelfixup but it should
let the modules work...

[joe (joerg-unglaub)]

dmesg output should look like this: (2.6.12-3) + madwifi cvs-11.july.2005

[4294811.529000] ACPI-0700: *** Error: acpi_ev_gpe_dispatch: No handler or
method for GPE[ B], disabling event
[4294812.829000] ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
[4294812.841000] ath_hal: 0.9.14.9 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413)
[4294812.869000] wlan: 0.8.4.5 (EXPERIMENTAL)
[4294812.888000] ath_rate_onoe: 1.0
[4294812.927000] ath_pci: 0.9.4.12 (EXPERIMENTAL)
[4294812.937000] PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
[4294812.938000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11
(level, low) -> IRQ 11
[4294813.461000] ath0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
[4294813.462000] ath0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps
18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
[4294813.462000] ath0: mac 5.9 phy 4.3 radio 4.6
[4294813.462000] ath0: 802.11 address: 00:0f:3d:ad:02:9b
[4294813.463000] ath0: Use hw queue 0 for WME_AC_BE traffic
[4294813.463000] ath0: Use hw queue 1 for WME_AC_BK traffic
[4294813.463000] ath0: Use hw queue 2 for WME_AC_VI traffic
[4294813.463000] ath0: Use hw queue 3 for WME_AC_VO traffic
[4294813.463000] ath0: Atheros 5212: mem=0x1c800000, irq=11

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

This is fixed in -7, but for some reason it failed to build. Looking into it.

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

-8 should fix the build issue with -7