PCI / wireless problem

[gaz_dc]

I am having trouble getting my wireless card to work. It is a Netgear WG311 using the Atheros chip set. After scouring the Internet, I found the following;

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge madwifi-driver
emerge wireless-tools
cp /etc/init.d/net.eth0 /etc/init.d/net.ath0
modprobe ath_hal
modprobe ath_pci
modprobe wlan
echo "ath_hal" >> /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6
echo "ath_pci" >> /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6
echo "wlan" >> /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6

After typing this in, I have got the wireless tools installed. However, when typing iwconfig, I get the following;

lo no wireless extensions.
dummy0 no wireless extensions.

I then tried iwconfig ath0, but obviously got the reply “No such device”. Also, when I type in modprobe ath_pci from the above instructions, I get the following error;

FATAL: Error inserting ath_pci (/lib/modules/2.6.11-gentoo-r8/net/ath_pci.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)

At the bottom of the output from dmesg is the following;

ath_pci: Unknown symbol ieee80211_ioctl
ath_pci: Unknown symbol ieee80211_ioctl

Also, I have tried lspci, but got back a command not found message.

Have I missed something from my kernel?

Thanks

Gaz

[sarumont]

lspci is part of pciutils. Emerge this then post the output of lspci.

[gaz_dc]

Okay, thanks for that. I thought lspci was an internal command

Now that I have pciutils installed, the output from lspci shows the following;

0000:01:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev01)

So it looks like my card is being seen. What is next?

Thanks for your help so far

[gwalters]

I got an error like that for a while then i rebuilt my kernel. I dont think I changed anything other than making all the wireless stuff into a module. Seems to work very well after that.

[gaz_dc]

Tried that with no joy.

Thanks for the idea though