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wireless not working on UEK2

Yassin OthmanOct 19 2012 — edited Nov 2 2012
Hello,

I have Oracle Linux 6.3 installed on my machine with two kernels :
1) 2.6.39-200.32.1.el6uek.x86_64
2) 2.6.32-279.9.1.el6.x86_64
wireless is woking fine on 2.6.32-279.9.1.el6.x86_64 kernel, but not woking at all on 2.6.39-200.32.1.el6uek.x86_64 kernel. I found that the driver module ath not installed on this kernel so, how to fix this issue where I use only UEK kernel for my wok and I would at the same time the internet access to be available on the same kernel.

Thank you in advance

Yassin
This post has been answered by Dude! on Oct 23 2012
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Dude!
Wireless is usually not a requirement for an Enterprise system. The Elrepo project provides a lot of additional hardware drivers and related software for RHEL based systems, check http://elrepo.org/tiki/tiki-index.php.

Perhaps the following will work for you:

# yum install http://elrepo.org/elrepo-release-6-4.el6.elrepo.noarch.rpm
# yum install http://elrepo.org/linux/elrepo/el6/x86_64/RPMS/compat-wireless-firmware-3.5-1.el6.elrepo.noarch.rpm
Yassin Othman
Sorry, It doesn't wok.
But as I posted erliear it work fine on the other kernel, so is there any workarround solution to share or copy ath wirless driver to UEK2 kernel?

Regards,
Dude!
The wireless driver module is /lib/modules/2.6.32-279.9.1.el6.x86_64/weak-updates/compat-wireless/ath.ko. Drivers are usually build for a specific kernel version and cannot be copied or shared. I think ath9k, etc. includes the ath driver. You can check your output of the "lspci -v" command to see what driver is being used for your adapter.

With the elrepo yum repository configuration in place, I suggest to try the following:

# yum install kmod-compat-wireless

If it still does not work, you can uninstall it all using:

yum remove kmod-compat-wireless compat-wireless-firmware

and check the vendor support page to see if they provide a driver download.
Yassin Othman
I doesn't work too.

I had installed compact wireless module(compat-wireless-2012-01-12) on prior uek kernel, it was woking well, but, once I have tried it on new kernel uek2 it raises with the following error:
[root@localhost compat-wireless-2012-01-12]# ./scripts/driver-select atheros
Processing new driver-select request...
Backing up makefile: Makefile.bk
Backing up makefile: drivers/net/wireless/Makefile.bk
Backup exists: Makefile.bk
Backup exists: Makefile.bk
Backup exists: Makefile.bk
Backup exists: Makefile.bk
Backing up makefile: net/wireless/Makefile.bk
Backing up makefile: drivers/ssb/Makefile.bk
Backing up makefile: drivers/bcma/Makefile.bk
Backing up makefile: drivers/misc/eeprom/Makefile.bk
Backup exists: Makefile.bk
[root@localhost compat-wireless-2012-01-12]# make
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.39-200.33.1.el6uek.x86_64/build M=/root/Downloads/compat-wireless-2012-01-12 modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.39-200.33.1.el6uek.x86_64'
LD /root/Downloads/compat-wireless-2012-01-12/compat/built-in.o
CC [M] /root/Downloads/compat-wireless-2012-01-12/compat/main.o
In file included from /root/Downloads/compat-wireless-2012-01-12/include/linux/compat-2.6.h:37,
from <command-line>:0:
/root/Downloads/compat-wireless-2012-01-12/include/linux/compat-3.2.h:19: error: redefinition of ‘skb_frag_page’
include/linux/skbuff.h:1659: note: previous definition of ‘skb_frag_page’ was here
/root/Downloads/compat-wireless-2012-01-12/include/linux/compat-3.2.h:35: error: redefinition of ‘skb_frag_dma_map’
include/linux/skbuff.h:1776: note: previous definition of ‘skb_frag_dma_map’ was here
In file included from /root/Downloads/compat-wireless-2012-01-12/include/linux/compat-2.6.h:38,
from <command-line>:0:
/root/Downloads/compat-wireless-2012-01-12/include/linux/compat-3.3.h:34: error: redefinition of typedef ‘netdev_features_t’
include/linux/netdevice.h:985: note: previous declaration of ‘netdev_features_t’ was here
make[3]: *** [root/Downloads/compat-wireless-2012-01-12/compat/main.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [root/Downloads/compat-wireless-2012-01-12/compat] Error 2
make[1]: *** [_module_/root/Downloads/compat-wireless-2012-01-12] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.39-200.33.1.el6uek.x86_64'
make: *** [modules] Error 2

Regards,

Edited by: Yassin Othman on Oct 21, 2012 10:48 AM
Dude!
The problem is not with Oracle Linux or UEK 2 kernel. Your hardware is not supported or the vendor software provided does not support Oracle Linux. What is the exact wireless adapter you are using. What are you trying to install? Why bother and not use Virtualbox? Install Windows or Ubuntu or whatever supports your system and run Oracle Linux in Virtualbox. Your wireless connection on the host system will be mapped to a standard ethernet device on the guest Linux OS.
Yassin Othman
07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company AR5BXB63 (Foxconn) 802.11bg Mini PCIe NIC
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10
Memory at c2000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
Capabilities: [60] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [90] MSI-X: Enable- Count=1 Masked-
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [140] Virtual Channel <?>
Dude!
The kernel driver you need for this type of card is "ath5k" or http://madwifi-project.org/
Yassin Othman
I have tried to use madwifi, but, I get this error:

[root@localhost madwifi-0.9.4]# make
./kernelversion.c:13:30: error: linux/utsrelease.h: No such file or directory
Checking requirements... ok.
Checking kernel configuration... /bin/sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `|'
/bin/sh: -c: line 0: `echo char *uts_release = UTS_RELEASE; | grep -q -i '^[2-9]\.[4-9]\.' || { \'
make: *** [configcheck] Error 1
Dude!
Answer
Perhaps you have downloaded the wrong source code. The web site outlines a special snapshot for kernels later than 2.6.25. The following works here on a default installation of Oracle Linux 6.3 x86_64 without any problem:

<pre>
# wget http://snapshots.madwifi-project.org/madwifi-0.9.4-current.tar.gz
# tar zxf madwifi-0.9.4-current.tar.gz
# cd madwifi-0.9.4-r4180-20120803
# make
Checking requirements... ok.
Checking kernel configuration... ok.
...
# make install

# ls /lib/modules/2.6.39-200.29.2.el6uek.x86_64/net
ath_hal.ko ath_rate_amrr.ko ath_rate_onoe.ko wlan_acl.ko wlan.ko wlan_scan_sta.ko wlan_wep.ko
ath_pci.ko ath_rate_minstrel.ko ath_rate_sample.ko wlan_ccmp.ko wlan_scan_ap.ko wlan_tkip.ko wlan_xauth.ko
</pre>
Marked as Answer by Yassin Othman · Sep 27 2020
Yassin Othman
this snapshot madwifi-0.9.4-current.tar.gz is not more available but am trying with http://snapshots.madwifi-project.org/madwifi-dfs-current.tar.gz snapshot which installed and now working properly.

Thank you so much for your valued support.

Yassin
Dude!
this snapshot madwifi-0.9.4-current.tar.gz is not more available
They must have been reading this post :-)
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