I'm trying to set up Slackware 14.0 on an Asus EEE PC Flare Series Netbook. Currently I'm trying to configure the wifi. When I enter the following:# iwconfigI get:lo        no wireless extensions.Which I've figured out means I don't have the driver for my wireless card installed (based on this - see the Wireless subheader). I checked lspci and here's the info on my network card:02:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev-01)I managed to find a guide here detailing how to install the right driver. I downloaded the tarball from the tutorial, transferred it to the computer running Slackware via usb, extracted it, and ran the commands from the tutorial. When I got to the part where I ran make, however, I got the following output:# make/sbin/modprobe: invalid option -- 'l'/sbin/modprobe: invalid option -- 'l'./scripts/gen-compat-autoconf.sh config.mk > include/linux/compat_autoconf.hAt which point it gets stuck. I eventually cancelled it with Ctrl+C and tried to run make clean. That also gave the /sbin/modprobe: invalid option -- 'l' error a bunch of times but eventually finished.At this point I googled a bit and eventually found this from 2 years ago which states that the -l flag was not implemented in the kernel at that point, but it was on a TODO list. I checked man modprobe and the -l flag wasn't mentioned anywhere, nor was there a TOOD section. I also checked the make file and sure enough it tries to invoke /sbin/modprobe with the -l flag, causing the make process to fail.Has anybody encountered this problem with modprobe before? Is there some alternative command I can substitute it with? (I can edit the makefile). Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Running makefile results in /sbin/modprobe: invalid option -- 'l'
wifi;drivers;slackware;modprobe
The version of modprobe in Ubuntu 12.04 (from module-init-tools version 3.16) does have a -l option, with description   -l --list List  all  modules  matching the given wildcard (or * if no             wildcard is given).  This option is  provided  for  backwards             compatibility  and  may  go  away  in future: see find(1) and             basename(1) for a more flexible alternative.For example,$ modprobe -l 'ath*'kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/ath5k.kokernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k.kokernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k_hw.kokernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k_common.kokernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k_htc.kokernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/ath6kl.kokernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath.kokernel/drivers/bluetooth/ath3k.koBased on that, it may be possible to replace the command with a command such as find /path/to/kernel/drivers -name 'xxx' e.g.$ find /lib/modules/`uname -r` -name 'ath*.ko' -type f -printf '%P\n'kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/ath6kl.kokernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath.kokernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k_htc.kokernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k_hw.kokernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k_common.kokernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k.kokernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/ath5k.kokernel/drivers/bluetooth/ath3k.ko