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leercrak

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Registered: 2010-10-16

Posts: 75

laptop wireless problem(s) [SOLVED]

lspci | grep Network
03:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)

FATAL: Could not read '/lib/modules/2.6.36-ARCH/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/b43/b43.ko': No such file or directory

i have done this

export FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR="/lib/firmware"                                                                                                 
wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/br … .4.tar.bz2                                                                                                           
tar xjf broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4.tar.bz2                                                                                                                                             
cd broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/linux                                                                                                                                                     
sudo b43-fwcutter -w "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR" wl_apsta.o

and ifconfig only shows eth0 and lo not wlan0

ive been using wiki guides and google but i think the main problem is i dont have a /lib/modules/2.6.36-ARCH/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/b43/b43.ko
and i dont know where to get that.

and heres rc.conf

#MOD_BLACKLIST=() #deprecated
MODULES=(b43 !b43legacy)

eth0="dhcp"

wlan0="dhcp"

wlan_wlan0="wlan0 essid linksys key 4cef23dd98

INTERFACES=(eth0 wlan0)

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network !netfs crond hal alsa net-profiles)

Last edited by leercrak (2010-12-16 05:20:41)

Dogmeat

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From: Slovak Republic

Registered: 2009-02-24

Posts: 193

Re: laptop wireless problem(s) [SOLVED]

FATAL: Could not read '/lib/modules/2.6.36-ARCH/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/b43/b43.ko': No such file or directory

It's weird because that kernel module is in kernel26 2.6.36.2-1.

marek@acerntb ~ $ pacman -Qo /lib/modules/2.6.36-ARCH/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/b43/b43.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.36-ARCH/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/b43/b43.ko is owned by kernel26 2.6.36.2-1

By the way, you should use either b43 module or wl (from broadcom-wl) = you can't use them both in the same time and probably only one of them is the right one for your wireless card.

If you choose this way then you probably need b43-firmware too.

Last edited by Dogmeat (2010-12-14 00:40:11)

leercrak

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Registered: 2010-10-16

Posts: 75

Re: laptop wireless problem(s) [SOLVED]

ya im pretty sure i accidentally deleted the b43.ko and the b43 module is the correct one not broadcom-wl so would i have to trace through my steps and undo broadcom-wl or is there an easier way to get rid of it?

Dogmeat

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From: Slovak Republic

Registered: 2009-02-24

Posts: 193

Re: laptop wireless problem(s) [SOLVED]

Either install broadcom-wl and b43-firmware by force (there will be conflicting files), then remove them or try to find all the files you manually installed to your system. To get b43.ko back just do pacman -S kernel26.

leercrak

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Registered: 2010-10-16

Posts: 75

Re: laptop wireless problem(s) [SOLVED]

thank you dogmeat