Master Kernel Thread

[v41]

So far I've failed to get wireless working with a custom kernel. Hence I'm wondering whether there's a straightforward way to activate/compile wireless in a custom kernel, without resorting to ndiswrapper? There has been some discussion of wireless in this and other threads, but some of it has gone over my head and some of it may not be relevant to my wireless card.

My wireless card is broadcom bcm4328 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 03), and this appears not to be supported by the b43 driver.

When using the stock Jaunty kernel my wireless card makes use of the linux restricted modules. In particular, there is a module called wl which does not exist in the custom kernel

The custom kernel [2.6.30.4] includes various modules related to broadcom and wireless,
viz broadcom, b43, b43legacy, lib80211, lib80211_crypt_ccmp, lib80211_crypt_tkip, lib80211_crypt_wep. However NetworkManager does not recognise the wireless card.

Suggestions gratefully received...

[jaffa_nz]

Kia Ora gang.

so being abit sleepy i forgot to tick "cleanup" when i compiled using KernelCheck utility (thanks worked a treat)

which directories and that can i remove

Running this bad boy here
2.6.30.4-candela #1 SMP Thu Aug 13 12:38:37 NZST 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

and have 2.6.28-14 and -15 on the drive.

think about 4.5 gb is still sitting someplace in the way!!

[xenogia]

I can't use Kernelcheck due to qt3 dependencies, is there anyway past this?

[hanzomon4]

I can't get the nvidia drivers built. Manually running the installer produces this error

  SYMLINK include/asm -> include/asm-x86
mkdir -p .tmp_versions ; rm -f .tmp_versions/*
make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=scripts/basic
(cat /dev/null; ) > scripts/basic/modules.order
make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=.
(cat /dev/null; ) > modules.order
make[3]: *** No rule to make target `kernel/bounds.c', needed by `kernel/bounds.s'.  Stop.
make[2]: *** [prepare0] Error 2
NVIDIA: left KBUILD.
nvidia.ko failed to build!
make[1]: *** [module] Error 1
make: *** [module] Error 2

[master_kernel]

So far I've failed to get wireless working with a custom kernel. Hence I'm wondering whether there's a straightforward way to activate/compile wireless in a custom kernel, without resorting to ndiswrapper? There has been some discussion of wireless in this and other threads, but some of it has gone over my head and some of it may not be relevant to my wireless card.

My wireless card is broadcom bcm4328 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 03), and this appears not to be supported by the b43 driver.

When using the stock Jaunty kernel my wireless card makes use of the linux restricted modules. In particular, there is a module called wl which does not exist in the custom kernel

The custom kernel [2.6.30.4] includes various modules related to broadcom and wireless,
viz broadcom, b43, b43legacy, lib80211, lib80211_crypt_ccmp, lib80211_crypt_tkip, lib80211_crypt_wep. However NetworkManager does not recognise the wireless card.

Suggestions gratefully received...

modprobe b43

I don't have this problem so it's merely a suggestion.

[master_kernel]

Kia Ora gang.

so being abit sleepy i forgot to tick "cleanup" when i compiled using KernelCheck utility (thanks worked a treat)

which directories and that can i remove

Running this bad boy here
2.6.30.4-candela #1 SMP Thu Aug 13 12:38:37 NZST 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

and have 2.6.28-14 and -15 on the drive.

think about 4.5 gb is still sitting someplace in the way!!

/usr/src/linux and /usr/src/linux-2.6.30

[master_kernel]

I can't get the nvidia drivers built. Manually running the installer produces this error

  SYMLINK include/asm -> include/asm-x86
mkdir -p .tmp_versions ; rm -f .tmp_versions/*
make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=scripts/basic
(cat /dev/null; ) > scripts/basic/modules.order
make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=.
(cat /dev/null; ) > modules.order
make[3]: *** No rule to make target `kernel/bounds.c', needed by `kernel/bounds.s'.  Stop.
make[2]: *** [prepare0] Error 2
NVIDIA: left KBUILD.
nvidia.ko failed to build!
make[1]: *** [module] Error 1
make: *** [module] Error 2

Are you running the binary installer from nVidia's website?

[v41]

modprobe b43

I don't have this problem so it's merely a suggestion.

The opensource wireless driver b43 seems to only support older wireless cards, according to the developers' webpage.

My wireless card is not supported by the opensource driver but is supported by linux-restricted-modules.

If it is possible to use restricted modules in conjunction with a vanilla kernel then I'd love to hear of it...

[v41]

The opensource wireless driver b43 seems to only support older wireless cards, according to the developers' webpage.

My wireless card is not supported by the opensource driver but is supported by linux-restricted-modules.

If it is possible to use restricted modules in conjunction with a vanilla kernel then I'd love to hear of it...

Problem solved

The driver from broadcom,

http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php

works with newer cards that are not supported by the b43 opensource driver in the vanilla/mainline kernel.

[hanzomon4]

Are you running the binary installer from nVidia's website?

I'm going through /usr/src/nvidia-xxxx/ make module, but I also tried the installer from nvidia and dkms all fail to build. I applied the RT patch and oddly enough the rt-kernel from the ubuntu-studio ppa won't build either