[elrepo] kmod-compat-wireless

[John Adegbile]

Hi,

I've been using centos6.2 for about 6 months now and have been running it
ok on a Sony Vaio.  I recently got my hands on a new laptop and installed
centos6.2 on there. It's a relatively new machine (Samsung NP700) so I
anticipated there might be a few compatibility issues. The main issue was
that my wireless card was not recognised. After a fair bit of researching,
I came across the kmod-compat-wireless fix.

I installed this (yum install...) and it completed with some errors, but I
now have wireless connectivity. My question is I'm not sure if should be
worried about the warnings I got after installing kmod-compat? Afterall, I
now have wireless...

Some details about my setup:

Actual wireless card name:
*Intel® Centrino® Advanced-N 6235*

uname -r:
*2.6.32-220.23.1.el6.x86_64*

lspci -nn:
*00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Ivy Bridge DRAM Controller
[8086:0154] (rev 09)
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Ivy Bridge PCI Express Root
Port [8086:0151] (rev 09)
00:14.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Panther Point USB xHCI
Host Controller [8086:1e31] (rev 04)
00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation Panther Point
MEI Controller #1 [8086:1e3a] (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Panther Point USB Enhanced
Host Controller #2 [8086:1e2d] (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation Panther Point High
Definition Audio Controller [8086:1e20] (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Panther Point PCI Express Root
Port 1 [8086:1e10] (rev c4)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Panther Point PCI Express Root
Port 4 [8086:1e16] (rev c4)
00:1c.7 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Panther Point PCI Express Root
Port 8 [8086:1e1e] (rev c4)
00:1d.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Panther Point USB Enhanced
Host Controller #1 [8086:1e26] (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation Panther Point LPC Controller
[8086:1e59] (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation Panther Point 6 port SATA
Controller [AHCI mode] [8086:1e03] (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation Panther Point SMBus Controller
[8086:1e22] (rev 04)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation Device
[10de:1212] (rev a1)
01:00.1 Audio device [0403]: nVidia Corporation Device [10de:0e0c] (rev a1)
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:088e]
(rev 24)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8168] (rev 06)
04:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS5116
PCI Express Card Reader [10ec:5209] (rev 01)
04:00.1 SD Host controller [0805]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS5116
PCI Express Card Reader [10ec:5209] (rev 01)*

Warnings during kmod-compat-wireless install:
*Installing : kmod-compat-wireless-3.3-2.n.*
*el6.elrepo.x86_64             **  1/1
Working. This may take some time ...
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.32-220.el6.**x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/**wireless/iwlwifi/iwlcore.ko
needs unknown symbol ieee80211_alloc_hw2
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.32-220.el6.**x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/**wireless/iwlwifi/iwlcore.ko
needs unknown symbol ieee80211_beacon_get
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.32-220.el6.**x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/**wireless/iwlwifi/iwlagn.ko
needs unknown symbol ieee80211_get_tkip_key
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.32-220.el6.**x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/**wireless/iwlwifi/iwlagn.ko
needs unknown symbol ieee80211_beacon_get
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.32-220.el6.**x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/**
wireless/ath/ar9170/ar9170usb.**ko needs unknown symbol ieee80211_beacon_get
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.32-220.el6.**x86_64/kernel/net/bluetooth/**l2cap.ko
needs unknown symbol bt_err
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.32-220.el6.**x86_64/kernel/net/bluetooth/**l2cap.ko
needs unknown symbol bt_class
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.32-220.el6.**x86_64/kernel/net/bluetooth/**l2cap.ko
needs unknown symbol hci_unregister_proto
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.32-220.el6.**x86_64/kernel/net/bluetooth/**l2cap.ko
needs unknown symbol hci_register_proto
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.32-220.el6.**x86_64/kernel/net/bluetooth/**sco.ko
needs unknown symbol bt_err
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.32-220.el6.**x86_64/kernel/net/bluetooth/**sco.ko
needs unknown symbol bt_class
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.32-220.el6.**x86_64/kernel/net/bluetooth/**sco.ko
needs unknown symbol hci_unregister_proto
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.32-220.el6.**x86_64/kernel/net/bluetooth/**sco.ko
needs unknown symbol hci_register_proto
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.32-220.23.1.**el6.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/**wireless/iwlwifi/iwlcore.ko
needs unknown symbol ieee80211_alloc_hw2
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.32-220.23.1.**el6.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/**wireless/iwlwifi/iwlcore.ko
needs unknown symbol ieee80211_beacon_get
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.32-220.23.1.**el6.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/**wireless/iwlwifi/iwlagn.ko
needs unknown symbol ieee80211_get_tkip_key
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.32-220.23.1.**el6.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/**wireless/iwlwifi/iwlagn.ko
needs unknown symbol ieee80211_beacon_get
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.32-220.23.1.**el6.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/**
wireless/ath/ar9170/ar9170usb.**ko needs unknown symbol ieee80211_beacon_get
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.32-220.23.1.**el6.x86_64/kernel/net/**bluetooth/l2cap.ko
needs unknown symbol bt_err
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.32-220.23.1.**el6.x86_64/kernel/net/**bluetooth/l2cap.ko
needs unknown symbol bt_class
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.32-220.23.1.**el6.x86_64/kernel/net/**bluetooth/l2cap.ko
needs unknown symbol hci_unregister_proto
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.32-220.23.1.**el6.x86_64/kernel/net/**bluetooth/l2cap.ko
needs unknown symbol hci_register_proto
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.32-220.23.1.**el6.x86_64/kernel/net/**bluetooth/sco.ko
needs unknown symbol bt_err
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.32-220.23.1.**el6.x86_64/kernel/net/**bluetooth/sco.ko
needs unknown symbol bt_class
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.32-220.23.1.**el6.x86_64/kernel/net/**bluetooth/sco.ko
needs unknown symbol hci_unregister_proto
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.32-220.23.1.**el6.x86_64/kernel/net/**bluetooth/sco.ko
needs unknown symbol hci_register_proto
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.32-220.el6.**x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/**wireless/iwlwifi/iwlcore.ko
needs unknown symbol ieee80211_alloc_hw2
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.32-220.el6.**x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/**wireless/iwlwifi/iwlcore.ko
needs unknown symbol ieee80211_beacon_get
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.32-220.el6.**x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/**wireless/iwlwifi/iwlagn.ko
needs unknown symbol ieee80211_get_tkip_key
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.32-220.el6.**x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/**wireless/iwlwifi/iwlagn.ko
needs unknown symbol ieee80211_beacon_get
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.32-220.el6.**x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/**
wireless/ath/ar9170/ar9170usb.**ko needs unknown symbol ieee80211_beacon_get
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.32-220.el6.**x86_64/kernel/net/bluetooth/**l2cap.ko
needs unknown symbol bt_err
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.32-220.el6.**x86_64/kernel/net/bluetooth/**l2cap.ko
needs unknown symbol bt_class
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.32-220.el6.**x86_64/kernel/net/bluetooth/**l2cap.ko
needs unknown symbol hci_unregister_proto
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.32-220.el6.**x86_64/kernel/net/bluetooth/**l2cap.ko
needs unknown symbol hci_register_proto
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.32-220.el6.**x86_64/kernel/net/bluetooth/**sco.ko
needs unknown symbol bt_err
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.32-220.el6.**x86_64/kernel/net/bluetooth/**sco.ko
needs unknown symbol bt_class
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.32-220.el6.**x86_64/kernel/net/bluetooth/**sco.ko
needs unknown symbol hci_unregister_proto
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.32-220.el6.**x86_64/kernel/net/bluetooth/**sco.ko
needs unknown symbol hci_register_proto
Done.

Installed:
  kmod-compat-wireless.x86_64 0:3.3-2.n.el6.elrepo*


I know there are later versions (3.5-rc3xxx) of kmod-compat-wireless from
linuxwireless.org but the procedure for using those seems a little complex
- I'm still relatively new to linux :-)

Can these warnings be safely ignored or should I be taking more active
steps to resolve them?

Thanks,

J
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