From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Problem compiling BCM Wireless driver on 2.6.37 (lib80211 symbol issue)
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 08:58:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110320155809.GA15283@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimaUY9koMsrr=ZFggjz4MSRmGpNUyvmbjkatwwa@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 09:04:21PM +0530, Shreyansh Jain wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> I recently compiled and booted up the 2.6.37 kernel on my Ubuntu
> (10.04), from 2.6.36.1. I have been trying to compile the Broadcom
> Wireless driver on 2.6.37, after making some changes in the source
> code. Just to add, this driver has been working fine on 2.6.36.1 which
> my machine ran earlier.
<snip>
Why not ask the authors of that code? As it is closed source, they are
the only ones that can legally help you out.
Or you could try the 2.6.38 kernel which has support for this hardware
already in it...
best of luck,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-20 15:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-20 15:34 Problem compiling BCM Wireless driver on 2.6.37 (lib80211 symbol issue) Shreyansh Jain
2011-03-20 15:58 ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-03-20 18:12 ` Shreyansh Jain
2011-03-20 18:50 ` Greg KH
2011-03-21 8:04 ` Shreyansh Jain
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