Re: Trouble with Macbook Pro 8,2 (broadcom 4331) and latest b43

[Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>]

On 11/29/2011 12:00 PM, AndrewL733 wrote:
> 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??

That path is derived from the current kernel version. It should get it right.

You should already have the directory /lib/modules/3.1.2-1.1-desktop. The 
command 'mv /lib/modules/3.1.2-1-desktop/updates to 
/lib/modules/3.1.2-1.1-desktop/.' followed by 'depmod -a' should be OK.

Larry