Bug#494166: madwifi-source: HAL ABI mismatch with 0.9.4+r3772.20080716-1

[Bégault Luc]

Kel Modderman wrote:
> severity 494166 important
> thanks
>
> On Sunday 10 August 2008 22:11:37 Kel Modderman wrote:
>   
>> On Friday 08 August 2008 01:08:29 Luc Begault wrote:
>>     
>>> Package: madwifi-source
>>> Version: 1:0.9.4+r3772.20080716-1
>>> Severity: grave
>>> Justification: renders package unusable
>>>
>>> After an upgrade to 2.6.26-1, I tried to rebuild the madwifi package against new headers, when modprobing ath_pci,
>>>  I have this error in dmesg: MadWifi: HAL ABI mismatch; driver expects 0x8052700, HAL reports 0x6090700 and the wifi card can't be used.
>>> Regards.
>>>       
>
> Paste the exact output from the shell please.
>
> Thanks, Kel.
>   
# modprobe -v ath_pci
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.26-1-686/kernel/drivers/net/ath_hal.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.26-1-686/kernel/drivers/net/wlan.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.26-1-686/kernel/drivers/net/ath_pci.ko autocreate=ap
#dmesg
../..
[333822.123551] AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
[333822.197795] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0e.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level,
low) -> IRQ 17
[333822.776830] MadWifi: HAL ABI mismatch; driver expects 0x8052700, HAL
reports 0x6090700
[333822.776890] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:0e.0 disabled

Regards.
Luc.