From: rsink on
On 07/02/2010 05:53 PM, Ulick Magee wrote:
> rsink wrote:
>
>> Model: "Atheros WLAN controller"
>> Vendor: pci 0x168c "Atheros Communications Inc."
>> Device: pci 0x002c
>
>
> Mine returns:
>
> Model: "Atheros AR5008 Wireless Network Adapter"
> Vendor: pci 0x168c "Atheros Communications Inc."
> Device: pci 0x0024 "AR5008 Wireless Network Adapter"
>
> Strange that there's only a cryptic code returned for yours. Even when I
> was running a kernel that didn't support my chipset I could still see
> the chipset name.

Yeh, I vaguely remember seeing human readable chipsets too at one time.
But here's where things got really funny, I must have tried to get a
z1211 whatever recognized in yast last night never seeing that number
per se but today, on reboot, I get the pasted-in boot.msg :-)


> As Malcolm says, looks like you need 11.3

Methinks that'll save me a load of grief at this point!


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klogd 1.4.1, log source = ksyslog started.
4>[ 35.473916] zd1211rw: Unknown symbol ieee80211_tx_status_irqsafe
<4>[ 35.479086] zd1211rw: disagrees about version of symbol
ieee80211_wake_queues
<4>[ 35.479097] zd1211rw: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wake_queues
<4>[ 35.480390] zd1211rw: disagrees about version of symbol
ieee80211_stop_queues
<4>[ 35.480400] zd1211rw: Unknown symbol ieee80211_stop_queues
<4>[ 35.481019] zd1211rw: disagrees about version of symbol
ieee80211_unregister_hw
<4>[ 35.481028] zd1211rw: Unknown symbol ieee80211_unregister_hw
<4>[ 35.483672] zd1211rw: Unknown symbol ieee80211_beacon_get
<4>[ 35.484697] zd1211rw: disagrees about version of symbol
ieee80211_rx_irqsafe
<4>[ 35.484705] zd1211rw: Unknown symbol ieee80211_rx_irqsafe
<4>[ 37.195680] zd1211rw: disagrees about version of symbol
ieee80211_free_hw
<4>[ 37.202669] zd1211rw: Unknown symbol ieee80211_free_hw
<4>[ 37.210423] zd1211rw: disagrees about version of symbol
ieee80211_alloc_hw
<4>[ 37.217187] zd1211rw: Unknown symbol ieee80211_alloc_hw
<4>[ 37.224337] zd1211rw: disagrees about version of symbol
regulatory_hint
<4>[ 37.231137] zd1211rw: Unknown symbol regulatory_hint
<4>[ 37.238874] zd1211rw: disagrees about version of symbol
ieee80211_register_hw
<4>[ 37.245688] zd1211rw: Unknown symbol ieee80211_register_hw
<4>[ 37.253828] zd1211rw: disagrees about version of symbol

........

<4>[ 66.350029] zd1211rw: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wake_queues
<4>[ 66.351359] zd1211rw: disagrees about version of symbol
ieee80211_stop_queues
<4>[ 66.351368] zd1211rw: Unknown symbol ieee80211_stop_queues
<4>[ 66.352026] zd1211rw: disagrees about version of symbol
ieee80211_unregister_hw
<4>[ 66.352035] zd1211rw: Unknown symbol ieee80211_unregister_hw
<4>[ 66.354706] zd1211rw: Unknown symbol ieee80211_beacon_get
<4>[ 66.355765] zd1211rw: disagrees about version of symbol
ieee80211_rx_irqsafe
Kernel logging (ksyslog) stopped.
Kernel log daemon terminating.