Bug 117669 - madwifi drivers on RC1 build are missing ath_hal module
Summary: madwifi drivers on RC1 build are missing ath_hal module
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
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Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Network (show other bugs)
Version: RC 1
Hardware: x86 SUSE Other
: P5 - None : Major
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Assignee: Christian Zoz
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Reported: 2005-09-18 13:02 UTC by Timo Geusch
Modified: 2007-06-05 09:37 UTC (History)
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Description Timo Geusch 2005-09-18 13:02:53 UTC 
The madwifi drivers on the RC1 build are only partially there - two of three
modules - but the HAL (ath_hal.ko) is missing. As a result the Atheros WiFi
support is non-functioning as loading the ath_pci module will fail due to
unresolved external symbols in both ath_pci and its dependants.

The bug is easy to reproduce - install RC1 on a system with an Atheros-based
network card (in my case, a Netgear WG311T). Yast properly recognises the card
but no network interfaces become available as inserting the modules fail (check
the dmesg).

As a workaround, I rebuilt the madwifi drivers from source but as the Makefile
in the ath_hal subdirectory contains a typo ("uanme" instead of "uname" which I
believe has already been reported as a separate bug) I had to fix up the
Makefile first. I could then successfully build the drivers and after copying
over and loading ath_hal I've now got a working network connection again.
Comment 1 Dr. Werner Fink 2005-09-19 09:38:12 UTC 
Please isntall kernel-default-nongpl
Comment 2 Olaf Kirch 2005-09-20 08:30:37 UTC 
In RC2 we moved all hal_* modules to the nongpl package to make this 
consistent.