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dkostic
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 Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 7:15 pm Post subject: have to rmmod and modprobe ath_pci to use madwifi [SOLVED] |
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Hey everyone. I've got a strange error. I use the madwifi drivers (see www.madwifi.org) for my wireless Atheros card. When I boot my laptop (see my .sig file for the specs), the ath_pci module is loaded by default. I then execute...
| Code: | russell me # modprobe wlan_scan_sta
russell me # ifconfig ath0 up
russell me # wlanconfig ath0 list scan
wlanconfig: len < sizeof(struct ieee80211req_scan_result)
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wlanconfig *should* output a list of available essid's. Instead I get that strange error up there. A google search turned up very little related to this error.
Here's what's weirder. Doing this...
| Code: | russell me # rmmod ath_pci
russell me # modprobe ath_pci
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...solves the problem  . wlanconfig ath0 list scan then outputs the available essid's and I'm good to go.
Does anybody know why this is happening, and why rmmod-ing and modprobe-ing solves this? Anybody had this happen with other modules? Any input would be appreciated.
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Toshiba Satellite A105 laptop, 1.7 mHz Celeron M, 100 Gb hard disk, 512 Mb RAM, 2006.0, 2.6.16-r7 kernel
Homemade desktop, 3.2+ mHz AMD Athlon 64 processor, 120 Gb hard disk, 1 Gb RAM, 2005.0, 2.6.14-r2 kernel
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dkostic
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I figured out the problem here, and thought I should post the solution in case anybody else ever encounters this problem. I had added "ath_pci autocreate=ap" to my /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 file. This should have read "ath_pci autocreate=sta". Now I don't need to rmmod && modprobe and everything works fine. Thanks to anybody who thought about this for me.
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