> OK then, I'll take your sillence as an approval of the manual and remove > the DRAFT tag and move it to *Making Wireless work on your laptop (or > desktop) > *So if anyone has any final suggestions or comments I'd be happy to hear > it before this goes official. Sorry, for not testing sooner. I took some time this morning and could update my driver using the latest kernel update! Here are my comments: 1. There is a typo in: mkdir -P /usr/local/src/hybrid-wl mkdir takes the -p option (lower case) 2. I could not perform: modprobe wl.ko but: insmod wl.ko works 3. I did not need to define all the aliases, neither remove all b43 stuff (I'm on a CentOS x86_64) Since I prefer not to diverge too much from the base system, I left it like that. 4. Interestingly I tried to define TYPEDEF_BOOL via the command line (which would avoid the modification of the files): make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/ M=$BUILD_DIR MODFLAGS=-DTYPEDEF_BOOL It builds without error, and the module can be inserted, but then it is not working (wlan networks are not found) More generally my question would be: if we would automate this procedure in a RPM (including the download from Broadcom website), would it count as redistribution?? Please find below for reference the script and patch I used for my testing. (please note: that the module is built in a temporary directory in order to keep the source directory read-only) Thanks for the hard work! Mathieu ## ## broadcom.sh ## #!/bin/sh WL_VERSION=v5.10.91.9.3 WL_ARCH=x86_64 SRC_DIR=/usr/local/src/broadcom-hybrid-wl-$WL_ARCH-$WL_VERSION BUILD_DIR=/tmp/wlbuild # Step 1: Prerequisites sudo /sbin/lspci | grep Broadcom sudo yum install kernel-headers kernel-devel gcc # Step 2: Retrieve sources sudo mkdir -p $SRC_DIR sudo cp -v broadcom-wl.patch $SRC_DIR cd /tmp && wget -N http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/hybrid-portsrc-$WL_ARCH-$WL_VERSION.tar.gz cd $SRC_DIR && sudo tar -xzf /tmp/hybrid-portsrc-$WL_ARCH-$WL_VERSION.tar.gz # Step 3: Build as unprivileged user mkdir $BUILD_DIR cp -r $SRC_DIR/* $BUILD_DIR cd $BUILD_DIR #make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/ M=$BUILD_DIR MODFLAGS=-DTYPEDEF_BOOL patch -Np1 < $SRC_DIR/broadcom-wl.patch make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/ M=`pwd` strip --strip-debug $BUILD_DIR/wl.ko # Step 4a: Check that the new module can be loaded #sudo /sbin/rmmod bcm43xx #sudo /sbin/rmmod b43 #sudo /sbin/rmmod b43legacy #sudo /sbin/rmmod ndiswrapper #sudo /sbin/modprobe ieee80211_crypt_tkip #sudo /sbin/rmmod wl sudo /sbin/insmod $BUILD_DIR/wl.ko #sudo /sbin/service NetworkManager restart # Step 4b: Install sudo cp -v $BUILD_DIR/wl.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/extra/ sudo /sbin/depmod $(uname -r) sudo /sbin/modprobe wl #sudo /sbin/service NetworkManager restart # Clean up rm -vf /tmp/hybrid-portsrc-*.tar.gz rm -rf $BUILD_DIR ## ## broadcom-wl.patch ## diff -Naur hybrid-portsrc/src/include/typedefs.h hybrid-portsrc-mod/src/include/typedefs.h --- hybrid-portsrc/src/include/typedefs.h 2009-09-16 00:25:27.000000000 +0200 +++ hybrid-portsrc-mod/src/include/typedefs.h 2009-12-23 12:32:15.000000000 +0100 @@ -65,11 +65,11 @@ #ifdef USE_TYPEDEF_DEFAULTS #undef USE_TYPEDEF_DEFAULTS - +/* #ifndef TYPEDEF_BOOL typedef unsigned char bool; #endif - +*/ #ifndef TYPEDEF_UCHAR typedef unsigned char uchar; #endif
