This is my first post here.
I’m using Opensuse 11.2 (Gnome)and the inbuilt kernel is 2.6.31.xx. My laptop is having bcm4312 (14e4 : 4315 id)chipset for wireless.
I have read multiple times here in some threads that this kernel will require Broadcom-wl drivers(Tried ,No success with this) And If I want to use b43 drivers , then I need to go for the 2.6.32 kernel (stable one from this release).
I’ve done the same exactly given in some other link -
Steps-
make mrproper
make menuconfig
make dep
make clean
make bzImage
make modules
make modules_install
After rebooting it’s not showing anything new.Just the boot menu with the older one.
Experts, Kindly let me know what I’m missing?>:(
On 01/07/2010 01:06 PM, PrinceSharma wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> This is my first post here.
> I’m using Opensuse 11.2 (Gnome)and the inbuilt kernel is 2.6.31.xx. My
> laptop is having bcm4312 (14e4 : 4315 id)chipset for wireless.
>
> (0e:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g
> (rev 01)
>
> 0e:00.0 0280: 14e4:4315 (rev 01) )
>
> I have read multiple times here in some threads that this kernel will
> require Broadcom-wl drivers(Tried ,No success with this) And If I want
> to use b43 drivers , then I need to go for the 2.6.32 kernel (stable one
> from this release).
> I’ve done the same exactly given in some other link -
> Steps-
> make mrproper
> make menuconfig
> make dep
> make clean
> make bzImage
> make modules
> make modules_install
>
> After rebooting it’s not showing anything new.Just the boot menu with
> the older one.
> Experts, Kindly let me know what I’m missing?>:(
The last two need to have privilege and you did a lot of extra steps.
After you got the configuration with ‘make menuconfig’, all that was needed is
make
sudo make modules_install install
One other point, using ‘make xconfig’ is a lot easier that ‘mane menuconfig’.
Thanks a lot for the quick reply.
I’ve been following your expert replies on this forum from a long but this wireless issue has knocked me down almost.
What about the step - “make bzImage” ???
Anyways…Let me follow what you’ve suggested ,I’m going to update soon then.
On 01/07/2010 01:56 PM, PrinceSharma wrote:
>
> Hello lwfinger,
>
> Thanks a lot for the quick reply.
> I’ve been following your expert replies on this forum from a long
> but this wireless issue has knocked me down almost.
>
> What about the step - “make bzImage” ???
A strange thing happened while performing the mentioned steps last night. The make command started giving error for each steps - Error 1 and Error 2 something. That was the most annoying thing happened to me that I couldn’t afford to handle after so much of efforts.
Sorry to say but I just did a fresh install of my old trusted mate - Fedora (12 this time). Installed kmod-wl and broadcom-wl drivers and wireless just started working with no hastle.
Wish the same could happen with my lovely OpenSuse11.2.>:(
you can close the thread if you think it’s required.
On 01/08/2010 08:56 AM, PrinceSharma wrote:
>
> Hi lwfinger ,
>
> A strange thing happened while performing the mentioned steps last
> night. The make command started giving error for each steps - Error 1
> and Error 2 something. That was the most annoying thing happened to me
> that I couldn’t afford to handle after so much of efforts.
> Sorry to say but I just did a fresh install of my old trusted mate -
> Fedora (12 this time). Installed kmod-wl and broadcom-wl drivers and
> wireless just started working with no hastle.
> Wish the same could happen with my lovely OpenSuse11.2.>:(
> you can close the thread if you think it’s required.
>
> Thanks for the help anyways. I appreciate it.
FYI, the Error 1 and Error2 messages come from make and are meaningless. The
real error is the one from gcc.
from a long but this wireless issue has knocked me down almost.