[Solved] Broadcom-STA...

[Carl]

I used dawgdoc's guide (http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 6&p=340545) previously to install it however afterwards I installed the Liquorix kernel and so tried to re-build it using the same steps however the build fails at 46%... Error 2

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QUILT_PATCHES=debian/patches \
		quilt --quiltrc /dev/null pop -a -R || test $? = 2
rm -rf .pc debian/stamp-patched
dh_testdir
#dh_testroot
dh_clean
/usr/bin/make  -f debian/rules clean
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/broadcom-sta'
QUILT_PATCHES=debian/patches \
		quilt --quiltrc /dev/null pop -a -R || test $? = 2
rm -rf .pc debian/stamp-patched
dh_testdir
#dh_testroot
dh_clean
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/broadcom-sta'
/usr/bin/make  -f debian/rules kdist_clean kdist_config binary-modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/broadcom-sta'
QUILT_PATCHES=debian/patches \
		quilt --quiltrc /dev/null pop -a -R || test $? = 2
No patch removed
rm -rf .pc debian/stamp-patched
dh_testdir
#dh_testroot
dh_clean
/usr/bin/make -w -f debian/rules clean
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/broadcom-sta'
QUILT_PATCHES=debian/patches \
		quilt --quiltrc /dev/null pop -a -R || test $? = 2
No patch removed
rm -rf .pc debian/stamp-patched
dh_testdir
#dh_testroot
dh_clean
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/broadcom-sta'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `kdist_config'.
for templ in ; do \
    cp $templ `echo $templ | sed -e 's/_KVERS_/2.6.36-0.dmz.14-liquorix-686/g'` ; \
  done
for templ in `ls debian/*.modules.in` ; do \
    test -e ${templ%.modules.in}.backup || cp ${templ%.modules.in} ${templ%.modules.in}.backup 2>/dev/null || true; \
    sed -e 's/##KVERS##/2.6.36-0.dmz.14-liquorix-686/g ;s/#KVERS#/2.6.36-0.dmz.14-liquorix-686/g ; s/_KVERS_/2.6.36-0.dmz.14-liquorix-686/g ; s/##KDREV##/2.6.36-14/g ; s/#KDREV#/2.6.36-14/g ; s/_KDREV_/2.6.36-14/g  ' < $templ > ${templ%.modules.in}; \
  done
dh_testroot
dh_prep
# Build the module
cd /usr/src/modules/broadcom-sta/i386 && \
	make -C /lib/modules/2.6.36-0.dmz.14-liquorix-686/build M=/usr/src/modules/broadcom-sta/i386
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.36-0.dmz.14-liquorix-686'
  CC [M]  /usr/src/modules/broadcom-sta/i386/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.o
/usr/src/modules/broadcom-sta/i386/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c: In function ‘_wl_set_multicast_list’:
/usr/src/modules/broadcom-sta/i386/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c:1435: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no member named ‘mc_list’
/usr/src/modules/broadcom-sta/i386/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c:1435: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no member named ‘mc_count’
/usr/src/modules/broadcom-sta/i386/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c:1436: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
/usr/src/modules/broadcom-sta/i386/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c:1442: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
make[3]: *** [/usr/src/modules/broadcom-sta/i386/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [_module_/usr/src/modules/broadcom-sta/i386] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.36-0.dmz.14-liquorix-686'
make[1]: *** [binary-modules] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/broadcom-sta'
make: *** [kdist_build] Error 2

[piratesmack]

Broadcom has released an update to the STA driver that supports kernel 2.6.36

It's probably not in the repos yet, so you'll have to compile it yourself

This should do it:

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wget http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/hybrid-portsrc_x86-32_v5.60.246.6.tar.gz

mkdir broadcom-sta && cd broadcom-sta

tar xvf ../hybrid-portsrc_x86-32_v5.60.246.6.tar.gz

make clean && make && sudo make install

sudo depmod -a

sudo modprobe wl

[ShexNivis]

Hello there,
the debian-way does not work on liquorix kernel.
use the method 3 from http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=141&t=57056
notice that every time liquorix kernel gets a new version you will need to reinstall it.
Just make a .sh to use to do so, it shouldn't take more than 5 minutes to reinstall it. It is worth

edit: the above guy was faster : (
the only thing I have to add from what he said is that u will have to do it again for every new liq. kernel released. And read the readme.txt from it. If you can't get it to load on startup that file has info on that.

[Carl]

Thanks guys =]

I thought it would be something like that

Looks like i'll be getting used to compiling it about time I stopped being lazy and copy & pasting commands anyway