Installing Wlan drivers for Broadcom 4313

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#1

I’m trying to install the drivers for my Wlan card, I’ve downloaded the drivers in the tar.gz-file from Broadcom and untar-ed it in my /home/<username>/hybrid_wl-folder and cd’ed to it and I try to run “make” but I get an error:

KBUILD_NOPEDANTIC=1 make -C /lib/modules/‘uname -r’ /build M=‘pwd’
make: *** /lib/modules*2.6.31.5-0.1-default/build: No such file or directory. Stop
make: *** [all] Error 2

I’m getting really desperate, I need my Wlan on Wednesday. I’m following the README but this is what I get.

#2

Open a terminal and post for me the result of:

uname -a

and

zypper lr -d
#3

The results:
“uname -a”

Linux linux-qq5b 2.6.31.5-0.1-default #1 SMP 2009-10-26 15:49:03 +0000 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

“zypper lr -d”:


# | Alias        | Name                  | Enabled | Refresh | Priority | Type   | URI                                                             | Service
--+--------------+-----------------------+---------+---------+----------+--------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+--------
1 | repo-debug   | openSUSE-11.2-Debug   | No      | Yes     |   99     | NONE   | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/  |        
2 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.2-Non-Oss | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | yast2  | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/non-oss/    |        
3 | repo-oss     | openSUSE-11.2-Oss     | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | yast2  | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/        |        
4 | repo-source  | openSUSE-11.2-Source  | No      | Yes     |   99     | NONE   | http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/ |        
5 | repo-update  | openSUSE-11.2-Update  | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.2/
#4

AFAIK you need the driver from the Packman repo. Add the repo through the repo manager, then run the software installer and install the packages below:
broadcom-wl
broadcom-wl-kmp-default

After a reboot the card should work.

#5

What repo? I’m installing it from a tarbal but if you know of a way to do it trough a repo I’d like to know.

#6

Please follow this carefully. Forget the tarball.

Open a terminal and become su -
Now do the following>

zypper ar -f http://packman.jacobs-university.de/suse/11.2/ packman

zypper ref

accept the key

zypper in broadcom-wl broadcom-wl-kmp-default

Once done reboot

#7

Bows

Thanks!

#8

You are welcome