Hallo,
ich versuche eine Driver für meine Sierre Wireless card (embedded) zu installieren. Dazu gibt es auch eine Anleitung von Sierra. Bevor nun der neue Driver installiert wird, soll mit modinfo sierra geprüft werden, ob bereits ein alter Driver vorhanden ist. Dies scheint bei mir der Fall zu sein, sodass ich nun mit rmmod sierra diesen deinstallieren will. Das geht jedoch nicht.
Hier die beiden Bildschirmausgaben von modinfo sierra sowie rmmod sierra:
linux-xswx:/home/Alexander/Linux_driver_Sierra_wireless/v1.2.10b_Kernel2.6.25 # rmmod sierra
ERROR: Module sierra does not exist in /proc/modules
linux-
Ich bin leider echt kein Linux-Held, um ehrlich zu sein, habe ich von openSuse11.0 gehört und dachte mir, das Linux doch eine tolle Sache ist und es nun gegenüber Windows ausprobieren will. Also bitte ich schon mal um nachsicht, wenn ich mich hier total blöd angestellt haben sollte.
rmmod entfernt nur den geladenen Treiber, deinstalliert ihn aber nicht. Falls Du ihn also nicht vorher mit modprobe geladen hast, ist die Ausgabe von rmmod normal.
Was ist das für ein Laptop? Es ist wirklich sehr selten, dass man einen Netzwerkkartentreiber vom Hersteller braucht.
BTW, es wäre besser fürs Resultat, wenn Du auf Englisch posten könntest. Die wenigsten hier sprechen Deutsch. Falls Du mit Englisch überhaupt nicht klarkommst, kann ich Dir eines der deutschen Foren empfehlen, z.B. www.suseusers.de oder www.linux-club.de
The Laptop is a Fujitus Siemens Q2010.
No, the driver was not installed manually by me with mdprobe. During installing openSuse11.0 I used Auto-Configuration. Perhaps during this auto-configuration procedure, the old or wrong (?)driver was installed.
Anyhow, I did not know that there is a difference between installing and loading a driver. All I know, was that the Sierra guidline says, if mdinfo shows there is a driver, deinstall it before installing the new one.
Grossmann200 wrote, On 06/26/2008 02:06 PM:
> First of all sorry for not writing in English.
>
> The Laptop is a Fujitus Siemens Q2010.
> No, the driver was not installed manually by me with mdprobe. During
> installing openSuse11.0 I used Auto-Configuration. Perhaps during this
> auto-configuration procedure, the old or wrong (?)driver was
> installed.
And we are talking about a broadband UMTS card or something like that? Because from what I see, your machine should have an Intel wireless NIC.
> Anyhow, I did not know that there is a difference between installing
> and loading a driver. All I know, was that the Sierra guidline says, if
> mdinfo shows there is a driver, deinstall it before installing the new
> one.
These are normally kernel modules which come with the current driver and aren’t installed. You can compile the driver into the kernel or compile it as a module and load it when needed.
You shouldn’t need to uninstall the driver before using a new one.
Hi Uwe,
yes, we are speaking about an UMTS card. I bought this laptop, since it was once of the first ones, who had an integrated UMTS-card. I put the SIM-Card in a slot below the battery pack. Of course it has a wireless-system too, but my problems are related to the UMTS-card.
Okay. I will try to compile the files I got from Sierra, and keep you informed about the result.
Thanks a lot for your replies. I really appreciate!!!
I have just tried to compile the files. Here are the lines from the terminal:
linux-xswx:/home/Alexander/Linux_driver_Sierra_wireless/v1.2.10b_Kernel2.6.25 #
dir
insgesamt 32
-rw-r–r-- 1 Alexander users 796 7. Mai 19:08 Makefile
-rw-r–r-- 1 Alexander users 23192 9. Mai 15:08 sierra.c
linux-xswx:/home/Alexander/Linux_driver_Sierra_wireless/v1.2.10b_Kernel2.6.25 #
make
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.25.5-1.1-pae/build SUBDIRS=/home/Alexander/Linux_driver_Sierra_wireless/v1.2.10b_Kernel2.6.25 modules
make[1]: Entering directory /usr/src/linux-2.6.25.5-1.1-obj/i386/pae' make[1]: *** Keine Regel, um »modules« zu erstellen. Schluss. make[1]: Leaving directory /usr/src/linux-2.6.25.5-1.1-obj/i386/pae’
make: *** [default] Fehler 2
linux-xswx:/home/Alexander/Linux_driver_Sierra_wireless/v1.2.10b_Kernel2.6.25 #
hmmm … I really feel like a dummy. I have installed openSuse 11.0 just from a bootable CD … how can I install the Kernel? Do I have to copy it from the CD or can I do this with YAST?
Okay, I believe I have installed the Kernel with the help of Yast.
Now, as Uwe as suggested, I tried to change to the directory /usr/src/linux.
But I do not have this directory on my computer. The directory name must be something different. Okay, here my folder strcture
On 07/05/2008 Grossmann200 wrote:
> Okay, I believe I have installed the Kernel with the help of Yast.
> Now, as Uwe as suggested, I tried to change to the directory
> /usr/src/linux. But I do not have this directory on my computer.
You didn’t successfully install the kernel sources then.