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#1 2011-10-05 22:47:52

masmidow
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Registered: 2011-10-04
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Broadcom 4357: brcmsmac driver

Hey,

    I am having trouble installing this driver - brcmsmac. I didn't get it during the core installation, so I have been trying to get it through pacman. Has anyone else gone through this? The wikis say that it has been part of the kernel for a while, so is there a direct way to get the brcmsmac driver?

Mike

Last edited by masmidow (2011-10-05 22:48:38)

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#2 2011-10-05 22:52:38

karol
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Re: Broadcom 4357: brcmsmac driver

Check if you have /lib/modules/3.0-ARCH/kernel/drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmsmac/brcmsmac.ko.gz
Check if it got loaded

lsmod | grep brcmsmac

It it didn't, load it manually

# modprobe brcmsmac

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#3 2011-10-05 23:13:35

masmidow
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Re: Broadcom 4357: brcmsmac driver

That's funny. I thought I had a later version of the kernel. It wasn't automatically included in my version: 2.6.34. So, should a simple:

pacman -Syu

rectify my issue by including the brcmsmac driver with the new kernel?

[EDIT]

Nevermind, it says that everything is up to date. So, how do you update kernel with pacman?

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#4 2011-10-05 23:16:41

warenoso
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Re: Broadcom 4357: brcmsmac driver

2.6.34 and up to date mmm, if i  were you i would check mirrorstatus

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#5 2011-10-05 23:18:35

karol
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Re: Broadcom 4357: brcmsmac driver

Is it a fresh Arch install? What mirrors are you using to sync your packages? You can grab a fresh mirrorlist http://www.archlinux.org/mirrorlist/ and try 'pacman -Syu' again.

Last edited by karol (2011-10-05 23:19:10)

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#6 2011-10-05 23:23:25

masmidow
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Re: Broadcom 4357: brcmsmac driver

So, while in the midst of upgrading, it was the mirrorlist BTW, I received this error after upgrading pacman:

pacman: error while loading shared libraries: liblzma.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

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