weird network mager act

[omi6541]

umm... I'm a sane guy over internet but ... excuse me for this perticular post please..

Ayuthia, YOU ROCK !!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANKS ALOT FOR HELP

HOLY COW ! HOLY JESUS !! HOLY GOD !!! I'M ON WIRELESS RIGHT NOW


Thanks alot Ayuthia hey iuponeverything, thanks

cya !

[jron]

I'm working on this too. I'll post my results shortly (I hope!).

results:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1010751

[cenwesi]

when i try to apply this patch, it is asking for "File to patch"
Can you please tell me how to apply this patch correctly??

Here is a patch that I created (so it is not official), but it is based on the same patch that was made for the original source. The patch compiled and worked on my 4311 card. I have not tested the new changes on the Broadcom version so I am not for sure what changes they have made.

Attached is the patch. You will need to download the source from:
http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php
Extract the download like the instructions say in the Broadcom site. Do not compile it yet.

Download the attached patch from this post and place it in the directory where you extracted the Broadcom source (it will be in the same directory as the Makefile). Extract the hybrid_wl-5.10.27.11_patch-2.6.27.tar.gz:

tar -xvvf hybrid_wl-5.10.27.11_patch-2.6.27.tar.gz

Then apply the patch:

patch -p1 -E < hybrid_wl-5.10.27.11_patch-2.6.27

Finally compile as normal:

make -C /lib/modules/<2.6.xx.xx>/build M=`pwd` clean
make -C /lib/modules/<2.6.xx.xx>/build M=`pwd`

Just replace <2.6.xx.xx> with the current kernel version (uname -r from the terminal).

Hope this helps. As I said, this is not the official patch, but one that I created so it has only been tested by me, but it is similar to the patch from before. If you are not comfortable, you can wait a few days until a patch comes out for this kernel.

[Ayuthia]

when i try to apply this patch, it is asking for "File to patch"
Can you please tell me how to apply this patch correctly??

It appears that you are not in the correct directory. I am not for sure about where you placed the Broadcom source code so we will start from the beginning. Let's say that you have the hybrid_wl-5.10.27.11_patch-2.6.27.tar.gz file and the hybrid-portsrc-*_5_10_27_11.tar.gz on the Desktop. You will then need to do the following:

Step 1: Make a directory to patch and compile the source

cd ~/Desktop
mkdir hybrid

Step 2: Copy the two files (source and patch) into the new directory

cp hybrid-portsrc-*_5_10_27_11.tar.gz hybrid
cp hybrid_wl-5.10.21.11_patch-2.6.27.tar.gz hybrid

Step 3: Go into the new directory and extract the files

cd hybrid
tar -xzf hybrid-portsrc-*_5_10_27_11.tar.gz
tar -xvvf hybrid_wl-5.10.21.11_patch-2.6.27.tar.gz

Step 4: Patch the source

patch -p1 -E < hybrid_wl-5.10.27.11_patch-2.6.27

Step 5: Clean up the source in case there has been prior compiles

make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build M=`pwd` clean

Step 6: Compile the source

make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build M=`pwd`

Step 7: Verify that the wl.ko was created

ls

If you see a wl.ko file at the end of all these commands, the module is compiled. Hope that helps.

[cenwesi]

worked like a charm... just make sure you use the patch on this thread.

ps: i am running kernel 2.6.27.9