Bug#665881: [wheezy] module ath5k is blocking wlan-card

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:

> Sure! I did the following: Installed all needed packages, unpacked the source 
> package and made a symlink /usr/src/linux to /usr/src/linux-source-3.2
>
> Patched: patch -p1 < /mypath/blah/0001ath5kxxxxxxxxxx.patch
> So I did with all patches.
>
> Then copied /boot/config-3.2.0-4-amd64 to /usr/src/linux/.config (so I got also 
> the version, worked before in the past this way).
>
> After that make menuconfig to check.
>
> Building then:  make modules, because I just wanted to build only the ath5k 
> module. 
>
> At last I copied the newly build module ath5k.ko and replaced it with the new 
> built one.
>
> depmod -a finished all.

Thanks.  The ABI of the module you built doesn't match the ABI of the
installed kernel.  Here's how I'd finish from there:

	scripts/config --disable DEBUG_INFO; # makes the build a lot smaller
	make deb-pkg; # optionally with -j<num> for parallel build
	dpkg -i ../<name of package>; # as root

http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html has more
details.  FWIW all ideas for making that document more useful would be
welcome --- making it easy for users to build a custom kernel is very
important since it is what makes communication with upstream possible. :)

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>                                                       But my time is limited, 
> as I cannot run compilatiuon at work and in the evening the time is often too 
> short, to run a compilation.

Yes, no problem.  When time is short, we can wait --- as long as it is
clear how long to expect for a reply, waiting doesn't interfere much
with other work.

Regards,
Jonathan