HI all,
Just upgraded to 12.2 on an HP Pavilion laptop with a Broadcom Wifi Card. I have been using the Broadcom
hybrid-portsrc_x86_64-v5_100_82_112 Linux STA wl.ko driver in 12.1.
All was fine.
When I reinstalled the wl.ko driver in 12.2 after the upgrade and did insmod wl.ko to activate the wi-fi card the console dumped this:
I did a “make clean” to recompile the driver but the compiler crashed and the console dumped me this:
linux-7qli:~/Downloads/Broadcom/hybrid-portsrc_x86_64-v5_100_82_112 # make clean
KBUILD_NOPEDANTIC=1 make -C /lib/modules/uname -r/build M=pwd
make[1]: Entering directory /usr/src/linux-3.4.6-2.10-obj/x86_64/desktop' Wireless Extension is the only possible API for this kernel version Using Wireless Extension API CC [M] /root/Downloads/Broadcom/hybrid-portsrc_x86_64-v5_100_82_112/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.o /root/Downloads/Broadcom/hybrid-portsrc_x86_64-v5_100_82_112/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c:43:24: fatal error: asm/system.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated. make[4]: *** [/root/Downloads/Broadcom/hybrid-portsrc_x86_64-v5_100_82_112/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.o] Error 1 make[3]: *** [_module_/root/Downloads/Broadcom/hybrid-portsrc_x86_64-v5_100_82_112] Error 2 make[2]: *** [sub-make] Error 2 make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory /usr/src/linux-3.4.6-2.10-obj/x86_64/desktop’
make: *** [all] Error 2
Any ideas greatly appreciated and a million thanks well in advance…
There’s a major thing I see that I don’t like. Having /root/Downloads usually means that you browse the web as root. Don’t, never.
From what it looks like, the kernel sources don’t have everything in the places where the driver install pack wants them to be. I suggest you download a newer version, or try using the broadcom-wl driver from the Packman repos.
On 09/09/2012 06:56 AM, Knurpht wrote:
>
> There’s a major thing I see that I don’t like. Having /root/Downloads
> usually means that you browse the web as root. Don’t, never.
>
> From what it looks like, the kernel sources don’t have everything in
> the places where the driver install pack wants them to be. I suggest you
> download a newer version, or try using the broadcom-wl driver from the
> Packman repos.
That is sound advice.
In general, when you use an out-of-kernel driver, you are on your own.
Sometimes, volunteers are able to help you, but not always. In this case, that
include file “asm/system.h” was removed from the Linux kernel over one year ago.
Perhaps Broadcom is that far behind, and possibly the newest Broadcom driver has
been fixed. You might not need to use wl anymore, which would make life a lot
simpler. What does ‘/sbin/lspci -vv | grep 14e4’ show?
Sorry about the confusion I NEVER do any web surfing from root, the downloads folder in root home is simply where I park drivers etc., that are copied across from from user home directory. I was NEVER able to get broadcom-wl to work in this HP laptop, the factory Broadcom STA driver however has worked through all versions of Suse 11 through 12.1.
I am attempting to compile the latest release of the Broadcom STA driver thinking that the older version I had been using was the problem.
On 09/09/2012 05:46 PM, glenlivet100 wrote:
>
> Sorry about the confusion I NEVER do any web surfing from root, the
> downloads folder in root home is simply where I park drivers etc., that
> are copied across from from user home directory. I was NEVER able to get
> broadcom-wl to work in this HP laptop, the factory Broadcom STA driver
> however has worked through all versions of Suse 11 through 12.1.
> I am attempting to compile the latest release of the Broadcom STA
> driver thinking that the older version I had been using was the problem.
Note: Broadcom-wl is the STA driver from Broadcom’s web site.