Bug#417087: madwifi-source: module load problem with 2.6.20

[Anders Boström]

>>>>> "AB" == Anders Boström <anders at bostrom.dyndns.org> writes:
>>>>> "KM" == Kel Modderman <kel at otaku42.de> writes:

 KM> Something could be wrong with your new kernel's configuration, or madwifi 
 KM> itself has problem keeping inter-module dependencies. There were early 
 KM> reports of the latter when recent changes were introduced, and were promptly 
 KM> fixed. This package contains those fixes iirc.

 AB> I've tested 1:0.9.3-1 and 0.9.2+r1842.20061207-2 with the same
 AB> 2.6.19.7 kernel. 1:0.9.3-1 fails in the same way as
 AB> 1:0.9.2+r2156.20070225-1 with 2.6.20.x, described in this
 AB> report. 0.9.2+r1842.20061207-2 works fine with 2.6.19.7.

 AB> The problem is probably this:

 AB> ath_pci.ko 1:0.9.3-1 is missing depends on
 AB> ath_rate_sample. 0.9.2+r1842.20061207-2 is dependent on
 AB> ath_rate_sample, 1:0.9.3-1 isn't.

 AB> Is this problem specific for my system? If you try
 AB> 'modinfo /lib/modules/*/kernel/drivers/net/ath_pci.ko' , do you see
 AB> "depends:        ath_hal,wlan" or
 AB> "depends:        ath_hal,ath_rate_sample,wlan" ?

OK, I've found my problem. I had a file /etc/modprobe.d/atheros with
the following contents:

alias ath* ath_pci

This *should* work fine. but for some reason, it don't with newer
versions of madwifi.

/ Anders