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linux-restricted-modules package

  1. Bug #292450
  2. Comment #76

Comment 76 for bug 292450

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dg (dan-g) wrote :

While we're waiting either for the bug-fix to appear in Intrepid (or until we all upgrade to Jaunty) this is an updated quick hacky mini-HOWTO that will result in a persistent updated fixed wl driver installation (my previous mini-HOWTO only was good until next reboot):

N.B. for amd64 (change the wget and tar accordingly for i386)

cd; mkdir wl_src
SRC=$HOME/wl_src
cd $SRC
wget http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/hybrid-portsrc-x86_64-v5_10_79_10.tar.gz
tar zxvf hybrid-portsrc-x86_64-v5_10_79_10.tar.gz
wget http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/wl_iw.patch
cd src/wl/sys
patch < ../../../wl_iw.patch
cd $SRC
VER=`uname -r`
make -C /lib/modules/$VER/build M=`pwd`
cd /lib/linux-restricted-modules/$VER/wl
tar cvf ~/wlObj_bak.tar * # backup existing mod objects in case something goes wrong
for i in *; do sudo cp `find $SRC -name $i` . ; done
sudo cp $SRC/lib/wlc_hybrid.o_shipped wlc_hybrid.o_shipped_x86_64