Dell 1490, 1395, 1397, 1505, and 1510 Wireless cards

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Dear all,
I have been trying to no success to compile the recently released (3rd October 2008) linux drivers for the Dell 1490, 1395, 1397, 1505, and 1510 Wireless cards. These drivers are from Broadcom themselves, as indicated in this page I stumbled across ( Linux driver available for Dell Wireless cards - Direct2Dell - The Official Dell Blog ) .
They also work for the appropiate Broadcom chipsets: 4311, 4312, 4321, and 4322.
I am sure as these cards feature in most new Dell laptops that I am not alone in needing help here.
Having downloaded the drivers from the link provided I cannot find any way of compiling them, I’ve compiled drivers in ubuntu and a few other linux distros before but have no idea what I am doing wrong.
Could anyone please help, possibly by talking me through compiling these drivers step by step on Suse Version 11. Best wishes, a fair few of my IT degree class are dying to get this working. Thank you all.

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have you had a peek at the stickies in the wireless section ? specifically that posted by lwfinger ? might be useful

Andy

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thank you i’ll go look now, i have tried compiling the driver myself, but suse just won’t start it for some reason, says no target :frowning:

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If it’s the Broadcom hybrid driver you are trying to compile, i posted a step-by-step in the wireless section, a quick search should reveal it. Any problems,just post

Andy

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Just a note, isn’t my Broadcom chipset more recent than those helped by the sticky? Or will this work? I would have thought the drivers provided by Broadcom themselves would be a better solution if only i could compile them? JUst a thought. Thanks.

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How to make wifi card BCM4322 (BCM4311, BCM4312, BCM4321) work with Linux STA driver.
Works fine, tested on Eduroam network.

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I have problem with steps

  1. Install kernel headers (eg. in fedora “yum install kernel-headers”)

  2. make -C /lib/modules/uname -r/build M=pwd

If you could explain what to do because i´m a bit lost. If you could also specify what should be put on uname-r. Thanks.

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> 4) Install kernel headers (eg. in
> fedora “yum install kernel-headers”)

zypper install kernel-headers

as root of course

> make -C /lib/modules/uname -r/build
> M=pwd

If you could explain what to do because i´m a bit lost.

Just execute this command.

> If you could also specify what should
> be put on uname-r.

Those are back-ticks. The character on the left of the “1” key.

Cheers,