On 5.1.2014 2:42, Aleksandar Kuktin wrote: >> On Sat, 04 Jan 2014 23:33:13 +0100 >> "Armin K." <kre...@email.com> wrote: >> >> On 01/04/2014 11:25 PM, Aleksandar Kuktin wrote: > >>> lspci reports: >>> Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN [14e4:4311] >>> >> >> 02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 >> 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter [14e4:4727] (rev 01) > > I know I'll sound like an idiot, but correct me if I'm wrong: a 802.11b > end-station is able to connect to a 802.11n AP, right? Ditto for > 802.11g end-station and 802.11n AP, am I correct? > > That's what I read just about everywhere yet am unable to make it work. > So naturally I have to doubt everything. :) >
Can't comment on this. My router seems to be set up for n, but I've seen a mobile phone connect to it just fine. It has some dual mode set up or whatever. >>> Is broadcom-sta the part I am missing? >>> >> >> Probably. Some distros call it broadcom-wl or simply wl since the >> module it builds is actually "wl". Since I got the source from Debian >> (older one, upstream has only the latest one) and they call it >> broadcom-sta, I kept the name. > > Aaaand.. it fails to build. Building against Linux-3.12.1 (weird how > glibc is suddenly irrelevant). > > But the problem is, I have absolutely no idea where to start mending > the problem. wl's code calls the function create_proc_entry(), > supposedly expecting it to be defined in the kernel, but which only > exists in two points in the kernel, both of them behind an "#if 0" > switch which means the code is deleted by the preprocesor. IOW, there > is no mention of create_proc_entry() in the kernel. And it also tries > to access fields in some structure (struct proc_dir_entry) that simply > do not exist. > > So I expect I will be unable to make it compile since I have no idea > even where to begin with fixing this much lossage. > Use the patches from my Archlinux AUR package: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/br/broadcom-sta-dkms/broadcom-sta-dkms.tar.gz Apply them in the same order as in the PKGBUILD (not really important, there are only two of them): https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/br/broadcom-sta-dkms/PKGBUILD Don't forget to run "depmod" after running "make install" and disable all of drivers that kernel provides or if they are built as modules, blacklist them. > For reference, what kernel do you build your version against? 3.13.0-rc5, as mentioned in the document. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
