the ath9k drivers do not work on arm (raspberry pi)

[matt holmes]

My kernel image is linux-image-5.15.0-1024-raspi

The ath9k_* drivers are not present on the system out of the box, from what i can see of the kernel config they should be included (could well be wrong on that front).

I have tried building the module from source and although it builds the .ko files just fine when i try to load them i get "could not insert module unknown symbol in module" errors.

[matt holmes (heliguy-matt)]

output of lspci -vnvn

[matt holmes (heliguy-matt)]

output of lsusb -v

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output of cat /proc/verision_signature

[matt holmes (heliguy-matt)]

dmesg output for missing symbols:

[ 2317.828935] ath9k_common: Unknown symbol ath9k_hw_set_txpowerlimit (err -2)
[ 2317.828977] ath9k_common: Unknown symbol ath_hw_keyreset (err -2)
[ 2317.829064] ath9k_common: Unknown symbol ath9k_hw_getrxfilter (err -2)
[ 2317.829088] ath9k_common: Unknown symbol ath9k_hw_gettsf64 (err -2)
[ 2317.829110] ath9k_common: Unknown symbol ath_printk (err -2)
[ 2317.829136] ath9k_common: Unknown symbol ath9k_hw_setrxfilter (err -2)
[ 2317.829160] ath9k_common: Unknown symbol ath9k_hw_getchan_noise (err -2)

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[matt holmes (heliguy-matt)]

I have managed to get the wifi card working by loading the drivers in the right order but the fact that it doesnt work out of the box is probably still a bug

[Juerg Haefliger (juergh)]

Try to install package linux-modules-extra-raspi.

[matt holmes (heliguy-matt)]

that is exactly what i need, thanks :)

[Juerg Haefliger (juergh)]

Glad to help.