Fedora 7 won't recognize my wireless card

[Actright484]

nope i looked i only got /usr/src/kernels/2.6.22.4-65.fc7-x86_64/ don't know what to do now if i'm being stuppid just tell me what to do

[Dapper Dan]

Okay, let's try it just a little at a time. The problem is, I'm not familiar with all that you did before so I've got to know that before we do anything. I need you to post here, the output of:

uname -a

This will tell us what kernel you are now running under. Whatever it is, you need to have corresponding entries (the number is the same) in /usr/src/kernels and /lib/modules. So let's also see the outputs of:

ls /usr/src/kernels

and

ls /lib/modules

While we're at it, let's also see:

ls /boot

Post the output of those commands here, then we'll take the next step.

[Actright484]

uname -a:

[root@localhost ~]# uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.20-2931.fc7xen #1 SMP Mon Aug 13 10:11:56 EDT 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

ls /usr/src/kernels:

[root@localhost ~]# ls /usr/src/kernels
2.6.22.4-65.fc7-x86_64

ls /lib/modules:

[root@localhost ~]# ls /lib/modules
2.6.20-2925.9.fc7xen 2.6.20-2931.fc7xen 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 2.6.22.4-65.fc7

ls /boot:

[root@localhost ~]# ls /boot
config-2.6.20-2925.9.fc7xen System.map-2.6.20-2931.fc7xen
config-2.6.20-2931.fc7xen System.map-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7
config-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 vmlinuz-2.6.20-2925.9.fc7xen
grub vmlinuz-2.6.20-2931.fc7xen
initrd-2.6.20-2925.9.fc7xen.img vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7
initrd-2.6.20-2931.fc7xen.img xen.gz-2.6.20-2925.9.fc7
initrd-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.img xen.gz-2.6.20-2931.fc7
lost+found xen-syms-2.6.20-2925.9.fc7
System.map-2.6.20-2925.9.fc7xen xen-syms-2.6.20-2931.fc7

[Actright484]

oh and by the way i did locate "kernel" and the only place that word was found was in folder /usr/src/kernels/2.6.22.4-65.fc7-x86_64. go figure i have no clue but i'm going to do some google's on missing kernel folder

[Dapper Dan]

From the command line as root:

yum install kernel-devel

When done, check in /usr/src/kernels and see if 2.6.20-2931.fc7xen is there.

[Actright484]

I'll have to do that tomorrow because i'm updating and it's taken 13 hours to get ta halfway you get the picture so I'll give word about what happened from doing this tomorrow and thanks a billon

[Actright484]

heres what happened with that:

[root@localhost ~]# yum install kernel-devel
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package kernel-devel.x86_64 0:2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

================================================== ===========================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
================================================== ===========================
Installing:
kernel-devel x86_64 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 fedora 4.7 M

Transaction Summary
================================================== ===========================
Install 1 Package(s)
Update 0 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)

Total download size: 4.7 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test


Transaction Check Error:
package kernel-devel-2.6.22.4-65.fc7 (which is newer than kernel-devel-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7) is already installed

Error Summary
-------------

even after the updates none of the information you asked for before changed and i still can't do modprobe ath_pci because of "Invalid module format"

[Actright484]

i have an idea what if i moved:

/lib/modules/2.6.20-2925.9.fc7xen
/lib/modules/2.6.20-2931.fc7xen
/lib/modules/2.6.21-1.3194.fc7
out of the way so that maybe theres no choice but to read my new kernel or would that mess something up?

[MikeTbob]

Don't do that, it will most likely mess things up.
All that message is saying is, you already have kernel-devel installed, it's a newer version.
You should be able to install the driver now. Give it a try.

[Actright484]

well i'm not going to i know how important kernels are it was just a thought but i can install drivers i just keep getting "Invalid module format" when i try to load them like I install NDISwrapper got the driver install no problems there at all then i went:

[root@localhost ~]# modprobe ndiswrapper
FATAL: Error inserting ndiswrapper (/lib/modules/2.6.20-2931.fc7xen/misc/ndiswrapper.ko): Invalid module format

yeah. so i'm thinking maybe i need to edit this file into a diffrent format...