[Voyage-linux] After kernelmodification the madwifi diver doesnt work anymore

[Kim-man 'Punky' TSE]

If you build your own (newer) kernel in your own way you will also need 
to build the external modules (madwifi-ng) by yourself.

Regards,
Punky

Michael Müller wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I downloaded the sources of the Voyage Kernel to modify the module
> support for USB Soundcards.
>
> After that I did make modules and make modules_install
>
> The Box runs, but the madwifi driver doesn’t work anymore. The PCI
> Atheros card ist listet in the lspci.
>
> If I try modprobe ath_pci I get FATAL: Module ath_pci not found
> So I tried to install the madwifi modules for Voyage.
>
> The madwifi-ng-modules for voyage is already installed says apt. Then I
> tried to install madwifi-module for voyage and got this error:
>
> voyage:/usr/local/src# apt-get install madwifi-module-2.6.15-486-voyage
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   madwifi-module-2.6.15-486-voyage
> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B/176kB of archives.
> After unpacking 516kB of additional disk space will be used.
> debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not
> installed
> (Reading database ... 9858 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking madwifi-module-2.6.15-486-voyage (from
> .../madwifi-module-2.6.15-486-voyage_20060124-1-sample+2.0-10_i386.deb)
> ...
> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/madwifi-module-2.6.15-486-voyage_20060124-1-samp
> le+2.0-10_i386.deb (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite
> `/lib/modules/2.6.15-486-voyage/kernel/drivers/net/ath_pci.ko', which is
> also in package madwifi-ng-modules-2.6.15-486-voyage
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  
> /var/cache/apt/archives/madwifi-module-2.6.15-486-voyage_20060124-1-samp
> le+2.0-10_i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
> Can anybody help? 
>
>
>
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