ath9k_htc drivers for RHEL 6.4

9 thoughts on “ath9k_htc drivers for RHEL 6.4”

1. According to the description, your package is based on ELRepo’s kmod, so it is actually kABI-tracking. Why would you say this won’t work on other kernels? I test-installed on my EL6 box and it did create a symlink from kernel 2.6.32-279.19.1.el6 (for example).

   Also, would you consider contributing this one to ELRepo?

2. I didn’t know about the kABI-tracking, I just saw the hardwired paths to that specific kernel and assumed that it wouldn’t work with anything else.

   I’ve no problem with contributing it. What would I do, just mail the ELRepo list?

3. Yes, either posting to the ELRepo mailing list or sending email to contact@elrepo.org will work.

4. Cheers for this,

   However when installing it, and trying to load the ath9k_htc module, I get:
   WARNING: Error inserting ath (/lib/modules/2.6.32-358.6.1.el6.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath.ko): Invalid module format
   WARNING: Error inserting ath9k_hw (/lib/modules/2.6.32-358.6.1.el6.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k_hw.ko): Invalid module format
   WARNING: Error inserting ath9k_common (/lib/modules/2.6.32-358.6.1.el6.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k_common.ko): Invalid module format
   WARNING: Error inserting mac80211 (/lib/modules/2.6.32-358.6.1.el6.x86_64/kernel/net/mac80211/mac80211.ko): Invalid module format
   FATAL: Error inserting ath9k_htc (/lib/modules/2.6.32-358.6.1.el6.x86_64/weak-updates/ath9k_htc/ath9k_htc.ko): Invalid module format

   and in the dmesg:
   cfg80211: exports duplicate symbol compat_genl_unregister_family (owned by compat)

   What kernel are you running and have you run into this?

5. Ryan, it looks like you’re using newer kernel than I did. Try building the driver from source on your machine:

   wget http://inauspicious.org/files/ath9k_htc/kmod-ath9k_htc-20130307-1.gbenson.src.rpm
   sudo yum install rpm-build
   rpmbuild --rebuild kmod-ath9k_htc-20130307-1.gbenson.src.rpm

6. Thanks for the reply, tried that too but to no avail. And now it looks like its stopped with the 2.6.32-358.2.1.el6.x86_64 kernel also, for me anyway

7. Oh, that’s a pain.

   FWIW I’ve filed a request with the Red Hat kernel guys to have the driver enabled in the stock kernel. The head guy wasn’t aware that ath9k_htc was being used in USB adaptors (he thought it was only used in phones) and he seemed pretty amenable to the change.

   I bought another card in the end, once I realised keeping it working would be a pain. I’m using the ath9k_htc one on a Fedora box (where it works fine).

8. We (ELRepo) have just released updated ath9k_htc driver packages for el6.4 to the testing repository:

   http://elrepo.org/linux/testing/el6/

   kmod-ath9k_htc-0.0-4.el6

   We would appreciate feedback from anyone with the appropriate hardware that is able to test.

9. Just a note to mention that we (ELRepo) have moved the kmod-ath9k_htc package (and ath9k_htc-firmware) to the main repository.

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