From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5 Description of problem: compiled drivers from source to get Intel 2915ABG to work: lspci | grep 2915 04:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2915ABG MiniPCI Adapter (rev 05) under 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 the newest ieee80211 and ipw2200 modules compile, load, and work. under 2.6.14-1.1656_FC4 modprobe of ieee80211 works but modprobe ipw2200 gives errors: kernel: ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encodeext kernel: ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encode kernel: ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encode kernel: ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encode kernel: ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encode kernel: ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_txb_free kernel: ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_txb_free kernel: ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encodeext kernel: ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_wx_get_scan kernel: ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_scan kernel: ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_rx kernel: ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_rx kernel: ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_rx_mgt kernel: ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_rx_mgt kernel: ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol free_ieee80211 kernel: ipw2200: Unknown symbol free_ieee80211 kernel: ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol alloc_ieee80211 kernel: ipw2200: Unknown symbol alloc_ieee80211 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.14-1.1656_FC4, ipw2200-1.0.10, ieee80211-1.1.9 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install fc4 2. yum update 3. download ieee80211-1.1.9.tgz from http://ieee80211.sourceforge.net/#downloads remove-old make && make install 4. download ipw2200-1.0.10.tgz from: http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/ remove-old 5. download firmware 2.4 from http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php extract to /lib/firmware 6. modprobe ieee80211 7. modprobe ipw2200 check dmesg for errors Actual Results: modprobe ipw2200 failed and errors cited above in dmesg output Expected Results: module ipw2200 loaded. Additional info: reboot back to base fc4 install and "Steps to Reproduce" works and the module is loaded. then the card can be configured as eth1 and used.
if you have problems in self-compiled modules, tell the people who made them.