Having a bit of trouble getting my Dell M4700 Broadcom BCM43228 wireless working. Was running the 3.11.6-4.1 desktop kernel and then upgraded to 3.13.1-3.gfc9498b-desktop via
zypper in --from Kernel:stable kernel-desktop
I still have the old 3.11 kernel available and everything still works there.
Here is everything I tried in 3.13:
-Removed and re-installed the broadcom-wl and broadcom-wl-desktop drivers via Yast and zypper with no luck. I’m assuming these probably haven’t been patched or compiled yet for 3.13?
-Downloaded the Broadcom driver directly from:
http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php
and getting errors. Here is the output:
KBUILD_NOPEDANTIC=1 make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build M=`pwd`
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-3.13.1-3.gfc9498b-obj/x86_64/desktop'
CFG80211 API is prefered for this kernel version
Using CFG80211 API
LD /home/chris/Downloads/hybrid_wl/built-in.o
CC [M] /home/chris/Downloads/hybrid_wl/src/shared/linux_osl.o
CC [M] /home/chris/Downloads/hybrid_wl/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.o
/home/chris/Downloads/hybrid_wl/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c: In function ‘wl_tkip_printstats’:
/home/chris/Downloads/hybrid_wl/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c:3246:7: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘wl->tkipmodops->print_stats’ from incompatible pointer type [enabled by default]
wl->tkip_bcast_data[idx]);
^
/home/chris/Downloads/hybrid_wl/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c:3246:7: note: expected ‘struct seq_file *’ but argument is of type ‘char *’
/home/chris/Downloads/hybrid_wl/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c:3249:4: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘wl->tkipmodops->print_stats’ from incompatible pointer type [enabled by default]
wl->tkipmodops->print_stats(debug_buf, wl->tkip_ucast_data);
^
/home/chris/Downloads/hybrid_wl/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c:3249:4: note: expected ‘struct seq_file *’ but argument is of type ‘char *’
/home/chris/Downloads/hybrid_wl/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c: In function ‘wl_reg_proc_entry’:
/home/chris/Downloads/hybrid_wl/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c:3470:2: error: implicit declaration of function ‘create_proc_entry’ -Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
if ((wl->proc_entry = create_proc_entry(tmp, 0644, NULL)) == NULL) {
^
/home/chris/Downloads/hybrid_wl/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c:3470:22: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast [enabled by default]
if ((wl->proc_entry = create_proc_entry(tmp, 0644, NULL)) == NULL) {
^
/home/chris/Downloads/hybrid_wl/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c:3475:16: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
wl->proc_entry->read_proc = wl_proc_read;
^
/home/chris/Downloads/hybrid_wl/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c:3476:16: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
wl->proc_entry->write_proc = wl_proc_write;
^
/home/chris/Downloads/hybrid_wl/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c:3477:16: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
wl->proc_entry->data = wl;
^
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
make[4]: *** [/home/chris/Downloads/hybrid_wl/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** [_module_/home/chris/Downloads/hybrid_wl] Error 2
make[2]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-3.13.1-3.gfc9498b-obj/x86_64/desktop'
make: *** [all] Error 2
Got the 331.38 Nvidia drivers working with 3.13 via a patch so I’m wondering if anyone has had any luck doing similar with broadcom drivers? If not, does anyone know (other than sakc’ing my own kernel) where I can get the stable version of the 3.12 desktop kernel? I dug through the repos and couldn’t find it. Thanks!