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From: AndrewL733 <AndrewL733@aol.com>
To: "Rafał Miłecki" <zajec5@gmail.com>
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Trouble with Macbook Pro 8,2 (broadcom 4331) and latest b43
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:00:21 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ED51DB5.5090202@aol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACna6rw1gEjd_hcX=5hLHt0YwUqDaVBs7_MO50GLKeok57YtVw@mail.gmail.com>

On 11/29/2011 12:22 AM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> 2011/11/28 AndrewL733<AndrewL733@aol.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thanks for the suggestions.  Nothing solving the problem so far.
>>
>> I meant
>> find /lib/modules -name "b43.ko"
>>
>>
>> What is the point of looking for b43.ko?  It exists for my running kernel.
> I believe b43.ko from compat-wireless should be put in some specific
> subdirectory, probably "extra". AFAIR it's
> /lib/modules/SOMEKERNEL/extra/...
>
> If you can see only default b43.ko, it means compat-wireless didn't
> install successfully.
>
Thanks for your reply.

You are absolutely right.  My Mandriva kernel's name is 
3.1.2-1.1-desktop but the compat-wireless "make install" is installing 
everything in the directory /lib/modules/3.1.2-1-desktop/updates.  The 
path is missing the ".1" before the "-desktop".

I'm not sure why this is happening.  I am running a Mandriva kernel from 
"Cooker" (running Mandriva 2011, which comes with 2.6.38.x, but the 
Macbook Pro 8,2 DVD isn't recognized until the 3.1 kernel.  I also 
compiled my own 3.2-rc3 kernel but then I can't get fglrx to work properly.

The joys of Macs and Linux..

But getting back to b43.  How can I instruct "make install" to put the 
drivers in the correct path?  I'm going to try to just copy everything 
to the correct place and run depmod  and see what happens.  Maybe 
that'll work??

Andy

  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-29 18:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-28 15:21 Trouble with Macbook Pro 8,2 (broadcom 4331) and latest b43 AndrewL733
2011-11-28 15:59 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-11-28 16:02   ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-11-28 16:13     ` Larry Finger
     [not found]       ` <4ED3FA65.7010104@aol.com>
2011-11-29  5:22         ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-11-29 18:00           ` AndrewL733 [this message]
2011-11-29 18:54             ` Making Progress " AndrewL733
2011-11-29 19:17             ` Larry Finger
     [not found]               ` <4ED5535E.50605@aol.com>
2011-11-29 23:42                 ` Larry Finger
2011-11-30  6:08                   ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-12-02 18:13                     ` AndrewL733
2011-12-02 18:24                       ` Dan Williams
2011-12-02 19:06                       ` AndrewL733
2011-12-02 19:40                         ` Dan Williams
2011-12-02 20:01                           ` AndrewL733

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