Going from Broadcom's sources to wireless card to WPA network
Suresh Govindachar
sgovindachar at yahoo.com
Sat Feb 26 03:27:44 UTC 2011
Hello,
In my attempts at replacing Windows on my Dell M6400 laptop
with -14-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso, I have gotten as far as
being able to create a live usb stick. My next step is to get
on the internet via the Dell Wireless 1510 Wireless-N WLAN
Mini-Card and my "WPA" network.
Broadcom offers sources and a library at:
http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/hybrid-portsrc_x86_64-v5_100_82_38.tar.gz
(via http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php ).
I did make on a machine with Linux 2.6.28-18-generic
#60-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 12 04:26:47 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux:
~/tmp/broadcom$ make
KBUILD_NOPEDANTIC=1 make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build M=`pwd`
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.28-18-generic'
LD /h/sgovinda/tmp/broadcom/built-in.o
CC [M] /h/sgovinda/tmp/broadcom/src/shared/linux_osl.o
CC [M] /h/sgovinda/tmp/broadcom/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.o
CC [M] /h/sgovinda/tmp/broadcom/src/wl/sys/wl_iw.o
LD [M] /h/sgovinda/tmp/broadcom/wl.o
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST 1 modules
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in /h/sgovinda/tmp/broadcom/wl.o
see include/linux/module.h for more information
CC /h/sgovinda/tmp/broadcom/wl.mod.o
LD [M] /h/sgovinda/tmp/broadcom/wl.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.28-18-generic'
~/tmp/broadcom$
The action for "make install" is:
install -D -m 755 wl.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/wl.ko
which, I _guess_, is just copying wl.ko and doing a "chmod 755 /<path>/wl.ko".
Key requirement: The wireless card works with Win XP and I do
_not_ want any firmware changes to happen to it!
Questions:
1) Will copying wl.ko to the corresponding directory on the
Live USB be OK (since the build happened on Ubuntu
2.6.28-18-generic)?
2) If copying is OK and if copying and use with or without
rebooting will _not_ make any changes to the wireless
card's firmware, what do I do next to get on the WPA
network and then to the internet?
Thanks,
--Suresh
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