RE: can't see wireless card

["Tom Raus" <raus.tom@skynet.be>]

Yes the error message that module format is invalid is related to for
example your kernel source files not matching your actually installed
kernel, or your kernel not living up to the expectations of the rt61
install. I have a rt61 wifi card aswell and I installed it with a 2.6.17
kernel (2.6.19 is giving me problems). I don't know about your system but
upgrading your kernel should only take a few hours (especially doing it the
debian way)

Friendly regards,
Tom R.

-----Original Message-----
From: robomod@news.nic.it [mailto:robomod@news.nic.it] On Behalf Of Avishai
Sent: zaterdag 30 december 2006 13:11
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: can't see wireless card


Hello,

> It seems that "RaLink device 0301" means this:
>
> 1814  RaLink
>
>       0301  RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI
>             1186 3c08  DWL-G630 Rev E
>             1186 3c09  DWL-G510 Rev C
>             1737 0055  WMP54G ver 4.1
>
> (You can find this information at http://pciids.sourceforge.net/pci.ids
>  or in /usr/share/misc/pci.ids if you use the "update-pciids" command
>  from the "pciutils" package.)

I've got an Edimax EW-7128g PCI card, and according to
http://ralink.rapla.net/ and some other websites, this card uses the
rt2500 chipset (that's why I went for the rt2500 package in the first
place). However, it appears that wireless manufacturers are known to
change the chipset without telling anyone, so I went ahead and gave
rt61 a try.

> That looks like you will need the "rt61" module for this card. I cannot
> find the source for this module with module-assistant, so you will
> probably have to compile it manually. You might also have to upgrade to
> a newer kernel. (The instructions at the URL given above mention version
> 2.6.15.)
>

I've compiled the module on my system (still using the old kernel, I
think that trying to upgrade my kernel with no direct internet access
might take away a few days of my life), and it completed successfully,
with the creation of rt61.ko. When I try to modprobe rt61, I get a
'Invalid module format' message (or similiar to that). You think that
is related to the kernel version, or is there another thing I'm
missing?

> -- 
> Regards,
>           Florian

Thanks a lot,
Avishai.


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