installing madwifi for Atheros 5212

[muton]

Ok, so I was having trouble installing madwifi on slackware 12.1. make;
make install went fine but I found out that the modules were
installed under a different kernel. So after looking
through the Makefile I managed to find the right variables to get it
to install for my current kernel.

So i typed in:

make KERNELRELEASE=2.6.24.5;
make install KERNELRELEASE=2.6.24.5 DESTDIR=/;

This installed the modules into the right directory but modprobe could
not find ath_pci. So i rebooted and now I get the following errors from
modprobe:

WARNING: Error inserting ath_hal (/lib/modules/2.6.24.5/net/ath_hal.ko): Invalid module format
WARNING: Error inserting wlan (/lib/modules/2.6.24.5/net/wlan.ko): Invalid module format
FATAL: Error inserting ath_pci (/lib/modules/2.6.24.5/net/ath_pci.ko): Invalid module format

[tpl]

welcome to the forum

> madwifi

thought "ath5k" or "ath9k" had taken over the atheros
driver situation: check yr kernel .config

[muton]

wow I had no idea. Thanks

[waterhead]

If your kernel doesn't have the ath5k and ath9k drivers enabled, you can install them from source. They are part of the compat-wireless package, available here.

Download - Linux Wireless