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Lavande

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Registered: 2011-05-18

Posts: 3

I have to re-build broadcom-wl every time I update the kernel...

If the kernel is updated, the broadcom-wl driver won't work after rebooting. Then I have to rebuild it from AUR.
I guess it's because this package is installed to the directory where the current version of the kernel lies.
But I have no idea how to fix this problem. Any suggestions? Thanks!

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: I have to re-build broadcom-wl every time I update the kernel...

Why is it a problem? All kernel drivers need to be built against the kernel that you want to use them with.

If you want it automated, have a look at dkms.

ngoonee

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From: Between Thailand and Singapore

Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 7,362

Re: I have to re-build broadcom-wl every time I update the kernel...

Any suggestions?

If you don't want to rebuild on minor-version updates, check out any other kernel module PKGBUILD. Short answer, they're in /lib/modules/extramodules-*.*-ARCH or related.

Better yet, just bug the package maintainer to update his PKGBUILD according to the above. I've done so for my nvidia-beta-all package, for example (and all the repo-based kernel modules place modules there).

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