Showing posts with label kernel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kernel. Show all posts

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Ubuntu 9.04 jaunty, kernel 2.6.30 and Broadcomm wireless drivers

Oh long story ... I upgraded ubuntu jaunty to kernel 2.6.30 because I had troubles with freezing my Intel GMA 945 internal graphics. Fine and everything went OK. But...

My wireless network was gone.

Here is solution:
* On http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php download driver (32, 64b according to your pc)
* carefully read http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/README.txt
* do step included in this readme

Wait, wait, wait - about 20 seconds, and my wicd recognized many wireless networks including mine :)

For autoloading of this module you need:
*
sudo mkdir /lib/modules/2.6.30-xxx/broadcomm-wlan/

*
sudo mv wl.ko /lib/modules/2.6.30-xxx/broadcomm-wlan/

* refresh modules
sudo /sbin/depmod -ae

*
sudo gedit /etc/modules

* add new line with "wl"