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Degru

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Registered: 2013-10-03

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[SOLVED] broadcom-wl driver needs to be rebuilt after kernel upgrade

I have Arch installed on a netbook, and every time I update the kernel, I have to re-install the broadcom-wl package for the wifi to work. I don't have this problem in Ubuntu.

I believe this is because it is not getting rebuilt under the new kernel automatically, while in Ubuntu it is.

I have to connect to Ethernet for the package to build with the default makepkg, so I downloaded the package and ran "makepkg --nobuild" to only download the package files so that I can rebuild the package without an Internet connection. Only problem is that this has failed a couple times in the past when I ran makepkg to build it, and had to re-download the package over Ethernet.

How do I make it so Arch automatically rebuilds the broadcom-wl package for the newer kernel after it is installed? I am using pacaur as my AUR wrapper.

SOLVED:

Installed broadcom-wl-dkms package instead of broadcom-wl so that it gets recompiled on kernel upgrade automatically.

Last edited by Degru (2015-04-04 23:36:50)

Trilby

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Re: [SOLVED] broadcom-wl driver needs to be rebuilt after kernel upgrade

Wouldn't that be what broadcom-wl-dkms is for?

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Degru

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Re: [SOLVED] broadcom-wl driver needs to be rebuilt after kernel upgrade

Wouldn't that be what broadcom-wl-dkms is for?

Oh, is that what I'm supposed to install? What does this do differently?

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: [SOLVED] broadcom-wl driver needs to be rebuilt after kernel upgrade

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dy … le_Support

Edit: Yup, it's in the wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Br … .2Fshowing

Last edited by karol (2015-04-04 03:19:48)

Degru

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Re: [SOLVED] broadcom-wl driver needs to be rebuilt after kernel upgrade

Ah, thanks. I just installed the dkms package, downgraded the kernel to test, and it worked.

karol

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Re: [SOLVED] broadcom-wl driver needs to be rebuilt after kernel upgrade

Please remember to mark the thread as solved https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130309

Degru

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Re: [SOLVED] broadcom-wl driver needs to be rebuilt after kernel upgrade

Please remember to mark the thread as solved https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130309

I can't seem to edit the title of the original post... I can edit the post itself but not the title. Tried it in FF and Chrome...

I added the solution to the actual post, though.

headkase

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Re: [SOLVED] broadcom-wl driver needs to be rebuilt after kernel upgrade

Edit the first post in the thread, yours, and the title will be one of the fields you can change.  Prepend "[Solved]" to it without the quotes.

Last edited by headkase (2015-04-04 23:18:53)

Degru

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Re: [SOLVED] broadcom-wl driver needs to be rebuilt after kernel upgrade

Nope, not working. You can see that I added a SOLVED to the post itself, but I cannot edit the title. I've been able to mark previous threads SOLVED just fine, so either I'm missing something big, or there's some bug with the site.

headkase

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Re: [SOLVED] broadcom-wl driver needs to be rebuilt after kernel upgrade

The title has a maximum character limit.  Delete some of the characters to make space for "[Solved]".  I can assure you, it works.

Degru

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Re: [SOLVED] broadcom-wl driver needs to be rebuilt after kernel upgrade

Ah, OK. Rewrote the title and it worked.