[SOLVED] Intel Wireless pro 4965 problem

[johny007]

Hello,
I've got a new Santa Rossa laptop (asus s96s barebone). It has Intel Pro Wireless 4965 card, which I can't make to work.

I've followed instructions on 2 sites:
http://intellinuxwireless.org/index.php?p=mac80211&n=HOWTO-mac80211
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-574254-highlight-4965.html

What I did: (i'm quite new to kernel compiling)

1. Patched kernel, recompiled it with options:
(a) [*] Networking -> Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack (mac80211)
(b) [ ] Networking -> Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack
(c) [ ] Devices Drivers -> Network Device Support -> Wireless LAN (non-something) -> Wireless LAN Drivers (non-hamradio) & Wireless

Then I rebooted, everything worked fine (except that I had to reinstall nvidia drivers),
BUT when I try to modprobe mac80211 it givees me folowing error:

# modprobe mac80211
FATAL: Error inserting mac80211 (/lib/modules/2.6.19-gentoo-r5/kernel/net/mac80211/mac80211.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)

and dmesg:
mac80211: Unknown symbol wiphy_register
mac80211: Unknown symbol wiphy_new
mac80211: Unknown symbol wiphy_unregister
mac80211: Unknown symbol wiphy_free


I don't know what to do. Can you help me?

I've also tried compiling kernel with (b) and/or (c) compiled in, but the results were exactly the same.

[didymos]

If you want to use the new mac80211 stack, then update the kernel to 2.6.22. Don't try the external, backported package or some patch from wherever.
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Thomas S. Howard

[johny007]

Everything is working now, thanks!!!