[RESOLVED] Still attempting to install wireless driver for D-Link adapter

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[RESOLVED] Still attempting to install wireless driver for D-Link adapter

Post by samrat_rao » 2012/10/10 12:01:16

Hi,

As [url=https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=39625&forum=57]this[/url] thread i opened is marked as SOLVED i am opening a new one.

I thought that installing [b]kmod-compat-wireless[/b] in the default distribition kernel would do the trick as the [i]Vendor:Device ID Pairing[/i], [b]2001:3c17[/b] seems to be available.

[code]grep 2001 /lib/modules/*/modules.alias | grep -i 3c17[/code]

[quote]/lib/modules/2.6.32-279.9.1.el6.i686/modules.alias:alias usb:v2001p3C17d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip* rt2800usb
/lib/modules/3.6.1-2.el6.elrepo.i686/modules.alias:alias usb:v2001p3C17d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*in* rt2800usb [/quote]

Right now i am using the default distribition kernel. Since [b]rt2800usb[/b] was not loaded ([b]lsmod | grep rt2800[/b]) gave nothing i used:

[code]modprobe rt2800usb[/code] to get these errors:

[quote]WARNING: Error inserting rfkill (/lib/modules/2.6.32-279.9.1.el6.i686/kernel/net/rfkill/rfkill.ko): Invalid module format
WARNING: Error inserting cfg80211 (/lib/modules/2.6.32-279.9.1.el6.i686/weak-updates/compat-wireless/cfg80211.ko): Invalid module format
WARNING: Error inserting mac80211 (/lib/modules/2.6.32-279.9.1.el6.i686/weak-updates/compat-wireless/mac80211.ko): Invalid module format
WARNING: Error inserting rt2x00lib (/lib/modules/2.6.32-279.9.1.el6.i686/weak-updates/compat-wireless/rt2x00lib.ko): Invalid module format
WARNING: Error inserting rt2x00usb (/lib/modules/2.6.32-279.9.1.el6.i686/weak-updates/compat-wireless/rt2x00usb.ko): Invalid module format
WARNING: Error inserting crc_ccitt (/lib/modules/2.6.32-279.9.1.el6.i686/kernel/lib/crc-ccitt.ko): Invalid module format
WARNING: Error inserting rt2800lib (/lib/modules/2.6.32-279.9.1.el6.i686/weak-updates/compat-wireless/rt2800lib.ko): Invalid module format
FATAL: Error inserting rt2800usb (/lib/modules/2.6.32-279.9.1.el6.i686/weak-updates/compat-wireless/rt2800usb.ko): Invalid module format[/quote]

I searched the net but only understood vaguely that some conflict might happen.

As i said in my previous thread i prefer to hibernate my desktop. The [b]elrepo 3.6.1 kernel[/b] froze after two hibernation attempts itself.

Perhaps someone would like to help.

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Re: Still attempting to install wireless driver for D-Link adapter [RESOLVED]

Post by samrat_rao » 2012/11/24 06:03:12

Hi,

The issue has been resolved. Installing [url=http://repos.lax-noc.com/elrepo/elrepo/el6/i386/RPMS/kmod-compat-wireless-3.5.4-1.sn.el6.elrepo.i686.rpm]compat-wireless[/url] from [b]ELRepo[/b] has worked.

I had installed kmod-compat-wireless previously but then all my net connections disappeared. Maybe it was a different version. I faced similar issues recently when i installed openSUSE in my new laptop --- the LAN card would not get detected. Finally moderators there suggested to compile compat-wireless.

Here i could not get compat-wireless other than the present installed version to compile in the distributed kernel --- so when i saw that the same one is available in ELRepo i uninstalled my compiled one. Dunno why only this version compiled for rt2x00 driver.

Please mark this thread as RESOLVED/SOLVED.

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[RESOLVED] Still attempting to install wireless driver for D

Post by AlanBartlett » 2012/11/24 15:56:06

Thank you for reporting back with your successful news.

As requested and for posterity, this thread is now marked [RESOLVED].

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