Re: rt2x00 - wireless compat - can not load compiled rt61pci

[<trencan@centrum.cz>]

Hello,

I used "search updates" in depmod.d and it works, perfect.

Thanks.

______________________________________________________________
> Od: mcgrof@gmail.com
> Komu: trencan <trencan@centrum.cz>
> CC: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Felix Bitterli <ic.felix@gmail.com>
> Datum: 17.05.2009 23:27
> Předmět: Re: rt2x00 - wireless compat - can not load compiled rt61pci
>
>On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 3:50 AM, trencan <trencan@centrum.cz> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I use latest Mandriva distribution 2009.1 with kernel 2.6.29.1-desktop-4mnb.
>> I have rt2561 wifi card in my PC. I would like to switch my wifi card to AP
>> or Ad-hoc mode. My distribution's rt61pci module doesn't support these
>> modes. So I have downloaded compat-wireless-2.6.30-rc4.tar.bz2
>> <http://www.orbit-lab.org/kernel/compat-wireless-2.6-stable/v2.6.30/compat-wireless-2.6.30-rc4.tar.bz2>.
>>
>> I ran:
>> make
>> make install
>> make unload
>>
>> Everything fine. But then "modprobe rt61pci" loaded my distribution's
>> rt61pci module and not the compiled one. Distribution's one is in folder:
>>
>> [root@trencancan compat-wireless-2.6.30-rc4]# ls -la
>> /lib/modules/2.6.29.1-desktop-4mnb/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt61pci.ko.gz
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11279 2009-04-21 01:13
>> /lib/modules/2.6.29.1-desktop-4mnb/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt61pci.ko.gz
>>
>> Compiled one is in folder:
>> [root@trencancan compat-wireless-2.6.30-rc4]# ls -la
>> /lib/modules/2.6.29.1-desktop-4mnb/updates/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt61pci.ko.gz
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 123843 2009-05-16 23:21
>> /lib/modules/2.6.29.1-desktop-4mnb/updates/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt61pci.ko.gz
>>
>>
>> But after I type "modprobe rt61pci", then:
>> [root@trencancan compat-wireless-2.6.30-rc4]# modinfo rt61pci
>> filename:
>> /lib/modules/2.6.29.1-desktop-4mnb/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt61pci.ko.gz
>> license:        GPL
>> firmware:       rt2661.bin
>> firmware:       rt2561s.bin
>> firmware:       rt2561.bin
>> description:    Ralink RT61 PCI & PCMCIA Wireless LAN driver.
>> version:        2.2.3
>> author:         http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com
>> srcversion:     E8C0D3A4B7F36984638CEDF
>> alias:          pci:v00001814d00000401sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>> alias:          pci:v00001814d00000302sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>> alias:          pci:v00001814d00000301sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>> depends:        rt2x00lib,rt2x00pci,eeprom_93cx6,crc-itu-t
>> vermagic:       2.6.29.1-desktop-4mnb SMP mod_unload modversions 686
>> parm:           nohwcrypt:Disable hardware encryption. (bool)
>>
>>
>> So you can see that Distribution's module (in kernel folder) was loaded. I
>> think root cause of problem is that run of command: "depmod -ae" finds first
>> rt61pci in kernel's folder and then next instance in updates folder is not
>> considered. If I look at output of depmod command:
>>
>> [root@trencancan compat-wireless-2.6.30-rc4]# grep -i rt61pci
>> /lib/modules/2.6.29.1-desktop-4mnb/modules.dep
>> kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt61pci.ko.gz: kernel/lib/crc-itu-t.ko.gz
>> kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00pci.ko.gz
>> kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00lib.ko.gz
>> kernel/net/rfkill/rfkill.ko.gz kernel/drivers/leds/led-class.ko.gz
>> kernel/net/mac80211/mac80211.ko.gz kernel/net/wireless/cfg80211.ko.gz
>> kernel/drivers/misc/eeprom/eeprom_93cx6.ko.gz
>>
>> So you may see that rt61pci in
>> /lib/modules/2.6.29.1-desktop-4mnb/updates/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/
>> folder is not considered.
>>
>> Please, how can I workaround this? Or what do I wrong? One solution can be
>> to install all compat-wireless modules into kernel folder instead of updates
>> folder. But then distribution's ones will be overwritten and un-installation
>> will be impossible.
>
>Mandriva may not look for updates/ dir by default. For Ubuntu I still
>see this respected.
>
>For example on ubuntu I see:
>
>mcgrof@tesla $ cat /etc/depmod.d/ubuntu.conf
>search updates ubuntu built-in
>
>Can you check your /etc/depmod.d/ directory or /etc/depmod.conf file?
>
>  Luis
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