Error installing Hybrid WL (802.11)

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#1

Hi, I’m new in SuSE Community, and first of all I want to say hello all of you.

Now, my lil’ problem…

I downloaded the Hybrid WL v35 x64 driver for my Broadcom, but when I try to compile it, this is what I receive:

me@linux-35bi:~/Downloads/hybrid_wl> make
KBUILD_NOPEDANTIC=1 make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build M=`pwd`
make: *** /lib/modules/3.11.10-7-desktop/build: No such file or directory.  Stop.
make: *** [all] Error 2

Ive searched a lot, but I didn't found anything. I'll be glad to know how to solve this, because I had this problem in past and Im curious, but for now I really need to connect at a Wireless Network and I can’t.

Kindly regards,
devna

#2

On Thu 13 Feb 2014 03:36:01 PM CST, devna wrote:

Hi, I’m new in SuSE Community, and first of all I want to say hello all
of you.

Now, my lil’ problem…

I downloaded the Hybrid WL v35 x64 driver for my Broadcom, but when I
try to compile it, this is what I receive:

Code:

me@linux-35bi:~/Downloads/hybrid_wl> make
KBUILD_NOPEDANTIC=1 make -C /lib/modules/uname -r/build M=pwd
make: *** /lib/modules/3.11.10-7-desktop/build: No such file or
directory. Stop. make: *** [all] Error 2

Ive searched a lot, but I didn't found anything. I'll be glad to know how to solve this, because I had this problem in past and Im curious, but for now I really need to connect at a Wireless
Network and I can’t.

Kindly regards,
devna

Hi
Why not download and install the broadcom-wl and
broadcom-wl-kmp-*-desktop rpms from packman?
http://packman.links2linux.org/package/broadcom-wl

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#3

Thanks for answer.
I tried to install it, but it says to me that I need one package dependicies, but… it didn’t tell me what package.

#4

On Thu 13 Feb 2014 07:56:01 PM CST, devna wrote:

Thanks for the answer.
I tried to install it, but it says to me that I need one package
dependicies, but… it didn’t tell me what package.

Hi
You need the broadcom-wl and the kmp for your system (desktop) then use
zypper to install both by adding cd’ing to the directory where they are
located and then using;


zypper in <pkg_1> <pkg_2>

Where <pkg_n> are the respective names…(tab completion should work
here)

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#5

I just installed the broadcom-wl-kmp-desktop-6.30.223.141_k3.11.10_7-2.7.x86_64.rpm with success, but still wireless does not work. (for my SuSE 13.1)

A little screenshot:

http://i.imgur.com/Qd9MZlf.jpg

#6

On Fri 14 Feb 2014 02:56:01 PM CST, devna wrote:

I just installed the
‘broadcom-wl-kmp-desktop-6.30.223.141_k3.11.10_7-2.7.x86_64.rpm’
(http://tinyurl.com/ky37xdw) with success, but still wireless does not
work. (for my SuSE 13.1)

A little screenshot:

http://i.imgur.com/Qd9MZlf.jpg

Hi
Ok, install the package rfkill and check (you need to be root user)


rfkill list

Did you also install the package broadcom-wl (as this blacklists other
modules).

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#7

Hi

This is the result:

linux-35bi:/home/me # rfkill list
0: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: no

And yes, I think I’ve installed the broadcom-wl package as I posted above. If I do it wrong, please correct me :frowning:

Thanks for answer.

#8

On Fri 14 Feb 2014 05:26:01 PM CST, devna wrote:

Hi

This is the result:

Code:

linux-35bi:/home/me # rfkill list
0: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no

And yes, I think I’ve installed the broadcom-wl package as I posted
above. If I do it wrong, please correct me :frowning:

Thanks for answer.

Hi
OK, lets have a look at the device, can you post the output from;


/sbin/lspci -nnk |grep -A3 Network

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#9

Doesn’t the Broadcom chip require the b43-firmware from Packman followed by a reboot?

#10

On 02/14/2014 07:46 PM, Romanator wrote:
>
> Doesn’t the Broadcom chip require the b43-firmware from Packman followed
> by a reboot?

Only if you use b43. The subject of this thread refers to wl.

#11

Thanks for answer
Umm, I just installed it, from Packman, and it seems that doesn’t works. The network manager is still like in the above photo.

The output is:

linux-35bi:/home/me # /sbin/lspci -nnk |grep -A3 Network
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM43227 802.11b/g/n [14e4:4358]
    Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. Device [105b:e040]
    Kernel driver in use: bcma-pci-bridge
    Kernel modules: bcma, wl
#12

You only installed that one package?
Then the system still uses the open source driver, and your lspci output confirms that.

You need to install the package “broadcom-wl” as well, that contains the necessary blacklist file.
http://packman.links2linux.de/download/broadcom-wl/1684086/broadcom-wl-6.30.223.141-2.7.x86_64.rpm

#13

Yeah, it works perfectly! Thanks a lot!

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