wireless [solved]

[hirohitosan]

Hi. I don't understand what's happened with my wireless connection. When start my computer the wireless just doesn't work (in win it works). I did something like

# modprobe ath_pci
# ifconfig ath0 up
# wlanconfig ath0 list scan
SSID			BSSID			  CHAN RATE  S:N   INT CAPS
JICA			00:02:2d:81:55:a1	1   11M  9:0   100 E
JICA			00:02:2d:b0:89:53	5   11M 25:0   100 E
JICA			00:02:2d:b0:8c:23   13   11M  4:0   100 E

 

I don't know what to do. I tried to reinstall the MadWifi driver but another error:

# make
/bin/sh: line 0: cd: /lib/modules/2.6.12-12mdk-i686-up-4GB/build: No such file or directory
Makefile.inc:89: *** /lib/modules/2.6.12-12mdk-i686-up-4GB/build is missing, please set KERNELPATH.  Stop.

 

I don't understand what was happened. Can you give me some advices.

 

Thank

[ianw1974]

Do you have your kernel-source installed and does it match your running kernel?

 

Do uname -r to find out running kernel and make sure it matches the kernel-source installed:

 

rpm -qa | grep kernel

[hirohitosan]

I did:

uname -r
2.6.12-12mdk-i686-up-4GB
# rpm -qa | grep kernel
kernel-source-2.6-2.6.12-22mdk
kernel-i686-up-4GB-2.6.12.12mdk-1-1mdk

it seems it doesn't match ... :mellow:

[ianw1974]

Upgrade your kernel to kernel-i686-up-4GB-2.6.12.22mdk.

 

Alternatively, latest kernel and kernel source is as follows:

 

[ian@europa ~]$ rpm -qa | grep kernel
kernel-i686-up-4GB-2.6.12.25mdk-1-1mdk
kernel-source-2.6.12.25mdk-1-1mdk

 

and that should do the trick. Make your you have your easyurpmi sources configured (main, contrib, updates, plf-free and plf-nonfree) although the kernel and kernel-source just comes from updates.

[hirohitosan]

Upgrade your kernel to kernel-i686-up-4GB-2.6.12.22mdk.

I don't know how to do that

Make your you have your easyurpmi sources configured (main, contrib, updates, plf-free and plf-nonfree) although the kernel and kernel-source just comes from updates.

I have configured all but it seems that it doesn't come from updates

I did

# urpmi --auto-select
# urpmi.update -a
# urpmi --auto-select --resume

After that

rpm -qa | grep kernel
kernel-source-2.6-2.6.12-22mdk
kernel-i686-up-4GB-2.6.12.12mdk-1-1mdk

I don't know how to upgrade my kernel

[ianw1974]

OK, nice and easy:

 

urpmi kernel-i686-up-4GB-2.6.12.25mdk

 

and then kernel-source separate if you like with:

 

urpmi kernel-source-2.6.12.25mdk

 

or, you can do both together with:

 

urpmi kernel-source-2.6.12.25mdk kernel-i686-up-4GB-2.6.12.25mdk

 

and then both will get installed at same time. Boot loader is automatically modified, so make sure you choose the linux-i686-up-4GB option as this is the one that will boot the newly installed kernel. Then check with:

 

uname -a

 

and:

 

rpm -qa | grep kernel

 

to see that all is installed. It doesn't get updated automatically with updates.

[hirohitosan]

I did

urpmi kernel-i686-up-4GB-2.6.12.25mdk

and

urpmi kernel-source-2.6.12.25mdk

after instalation my lilo.conf looks like

default="windows"
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=menu
keytable=/boot/us.klt
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
prompt
nowarn
timeout=6000
message=/boot/message
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="linux"
root=/dev/hda4
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="resume=/dev/hda3"
vga=788
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="linux-nonfb"
root=/dev/hda4
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="resume=/dev/hda3"
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="failsafe"
root=/dev/hda4
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="failsafe resume=/dev/hda3"
other=/dev/hda1
label="windows"
table=/dev/hda
image=/boot/vmlinuz-i686-up-4GB
label="linux-i686-up-4GB"
root=/dev/hda4
initrd=/boot/initrd-i686-up-4GB.img
append="resume=/dev/hda3"
vga=788
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-25mdk-i686-up-4GB
label="2612i686up4G-25"
root=/dev/hda4
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.12-25mdk-i686-up-4GB.img
append="resume=/dev/hda3"
vga=788

I booted in "2612i686up4G-25"

after that:

uname -a
Linux localhost 2.6.12-25mdk-i686-up-4GB #1 Fri Aug 18 13:59:05 MDT 2006 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1500MHz unknown GNU/Linux
# rpm -qa | grep kernel
kernel-source-2.6-2.6.12-22mdk
kernel-i686-up-4GB-2.6.12.12mdk-1-1mdk
kernel-source-2.6.12.25mdk-1-1mdk
kernel-i686-up-4GB-2.6.12.25mdk-1-1mdk

I don't know if this is good or not. I don't understand why "unknown GNU/Linux" and also I don't understand the output of # rpm -qa | grep kernel

 

I did something wrong?

 

and do I need all that options at boot?

[ianw1974]

Yes, that's perfectly fine. You could now remove the old kernel:

 

urpme kernel-i686-up-4GB-2.6.12.12mdk kernel-source-2.6-2.6.12.22mdk

 

and just leave the latest kernel installed.

[hirohitosan]

Solved :) thanx