building a driver/mod for a wireless nic

[bruce]

Hi.

I know this is a "centos" issue, but I've searched, can't find an
answer, and thought the answer might be helpful to others. Feel free
to flame away if I stepped on your toes!

I'm following the steps to build the driver/module as describe in the url

       http://elrepo.org/tiki/wl-kmod

The step I'm confused on is the step 4)

4) Download the Broadcom driver matching your architecture (i.e.,
32-bit vs 64-bit):

   from:   http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php
   to:      ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/


The tar.gz file for the driver is listed on the page, but I'm not sure
if I'm supposed to place the entire tar.gz file in the "SOURCES" dir
(doubtful) or if i'm supposed to untar it, which will then have the
underlying dirs from the tar file in the SOURCES dir...

Or, if I'm supposed to follow the readme listed on the broadcom page,
and build the wl.ko.

Once I get this resolved, the rest should work ok...

Thanks for any pointers/feedback.

'ppreciate it

[Jack Craig]

i suggest untar it...


On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 3:10 PM, bruce <badouglas(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  Hi.
>
>  I know this is a "centos" issue, but I've searched, can't find an
>  answer, and thought the answer might be helpful to others. Feel free
>  to flame away if I stepped on your toes!
>
>  I'm following the steps to build the driver/module as describe in the url
>
>         http://elrepo.org/tiki/wl-kmod
>
>  The step I'm confused on is the step 4)
>
>  4) Download the Broadcom driver matching your architecture (i.e.,
>  32-bit vs 64-bit):
>
>     from:   http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php
>     to:      ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/
>
>
>  The tar.gz file for the driver is listed on the page, but I'm not sure
>  if I'm supposed to place the entire tar.gz file in the "SOURCES" dir
>  (doubtful) or if i'm supposed to untar it, which will then have the
>  underlying dirs from the tar file in the SOURCES dir...
>
>  Or, if I'm supposed to follow the readme listed on the broadcom page,
>  and build the wl.ko.
>
>  Once I get this resolved, the rest should work ok...
>
>  Thanks for any pointers/feedback.
>
>  'ppreciate it
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[Ed Greshko]

On 02/11/14 07:10, bruce wrote:
>  Hi.
>
>  I know this is a "centos" issue, but I've searched, can't find an
>  answer, and thought the answer might be helpful to others. Feel free
>  to flame away if I stepped on your toes!
>
>  I'm following the steps to build the driver/module as describe in the url
>
>         http://elrepo.org/tiki/wl-kmod
>
>  The step I'm confused on is the step 4)
>
>  4) Download the Broadcom driver matching your architecture (i.e.,
>  32-bit vs 64-bit):
>
>     from:   http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php
>     to:      ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/
>
>
>  The tar.gz file for the driver is listed on the page, but I'm not sure
>  if I'm supposed to place the entire tar.gz file in the "SOURCES" dir
>  (doubtful) or if i'm supposed to untar it, which will then have the
>  underlying dirs from the tar file in the SOURCES dir...
>
>  Or, if I'm supposed to follow the readme listed on the broadcom page,
>  and build the wl.ko.
>
>  Once I get this resolved, the rest should work ok...
>
>  Thanks for any pointers/feedback.
>
>  'ppreciate it 
This doesn't answer your question....  But, have you considered using the drivers
supplied by rpmfusion for Broadcom devices?

-- 
Getting tired of non-Fedora discussions and self-serving posts

[bruce]

ok...


here's a basic solution for the issue I faced with the dell/broadcom
wireless card/nic.

unning
lspci -nn | grep AR8162
lspci -nn | grep RTL8188EE

or
lspci -n grep '01:00.0'
01:00.0 0200: 1969:1090 (rev 10)

lspci -n grep '02:00.0'
02:00.0 0280: 10ec:8179 (rev 01)

unning
lspci -nn | grep BCM4313
lspci -nn | grep AR8152

or
lspci -n grep '03:00.0'
01:00.0 0200: 1969:1090 (rev 10)

lspci -n grep '04:00.0'
02:00.0 0280: 10ec:8179 (rev 01)

broadcom - BCM4313
14e4:4727

atheros - AR8152 :: eth
1969:2060
pci     1969:2060       kmod-atl1e
atl1e.ko


------from google/search
http://elrepo.org/tiki/wl-kmod


http://elrepo.org/linux/elrepo/el6/x86_64/RPMS/kmod-atl1e-1.0.1.14-1.el6....

however, for the broadcom, it appears need to build from src..


yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'
yum install redhat-lsb  <<< this didn't result in any file being downloaded
yum install kernel-devel-$(uname -r)

yum reinstall gcc --downloadonly --downloaddir=/dell

yum groupinstall 'Development Tools' --downloadonly --downloaddir=/dell

for the groupinstall.. had to do a bunch of yum reinstall steps
create tmp dir, with all the rpm files..

$mkdir -p ~/rpmbuild/{BUILD,RPMS,SPECS,SOURCES,SRPMS}
$echo -e "%_topdir $(echo $HOME)/rpmbuild\n%dist .el$(lsb_release -s
-r|cut -d"." -f1).local" >> ~/.rpmmacros


from:   http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php (external link)
to:      ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/

wget http://elrepo.org/linux/elrepo/el6/SRPMS/wl-kmod-6_30_223_141-2.el6.elrep...
-O



$ rpmbuild --rebuild --target=`uname -m` --define 'packager
<your-name>' /<path-to-nosrc.rpm>/wl-kmod*nosrc.rpm
  ...
 Wrote: /home/<user>/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/kmod-wl-<version>.x86_64.rpm
  ...
 + exit 0

(Note: The rpmbuild option --target=`uname -m` is only required for
EL5 32-bit builds.)

#
# ok - for the above build step, you need to make sure you copy the
# tar file from the broadcom site for the 32/64 bit system
#
# the build process uses the complete tar file, so it doesn't have to be
# extracted
#

once you build the process, you get an actual rpm in the RPMS dir of
the rpmbuild tree that you can use/install, to actually have the
kmod-wl driver for the broadcom nic.

 # modprobe -r b43 b43legacy ssb wl lib80211
 # modprobe -r bcma (Note: needed for EL 6.4 and later)
 # modprobe lib80211_crypt_tkip
 # modprobe wl




eth0 issue::
ok - to get the p5p1 to be seen as the eth0
did a  system-config-network-tui from the term/cmdline
selected the p5p1 and changed the name to eth0, added the rest of the
 required fields
saved the data
-this seemed to generate the /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules file
-did a reboot and the system now shows via ifconfig -a eth0 instead
 of p5p1 as the eth device...



On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Jack Craig <jack.craig.aptos(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  i suggest untar it...
>
>
>  On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 3:10 PM, bruce <badouglas(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
> >
> > Hi.
> >
> > I know this is a "centos" issue, but I've searched, can't find an
> > answer, and thought the answer might be helpful to others. Feel free
> > to flame away if I stepped on your toes!
> >
> > I'm following the steps to build the driver/module as describe in the url
> >
> >        http://elrepo.org/tiki/wl-kmod
> >
> > The step I'm confused on is the step 4)
> >
> > 4) Download the Broadcom driver matching your architecture (i.e.,
> > 32-bit vs 64-bit):
> >
> >    from:   http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php
> >    to:      ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/
> >
> >
> > The tar.gz file for the driver is listed on the page, but I'm not sure
> > if I'm supposed to place the entire tar.gz file in the "SOURCES" dir
> > (doubtful) or if i'm supposed to untar it, which will then have the
> > underlying dirs from the tar file in the SOURCES dir...
> >
> > Or, if I'm supposed to follow the readme listed on the broadcom page,
> > and build the wl.ko.
> >
> > Once I get this resolved, the rest should work ok...
> >
> > Thanks for any pointers/feedback.
> >
> > 'ppreciate it
> > --
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