Wireless, Broadcom

[Rick Stevens]

Vincent Onelli wrote:
>>    1. Re: Wireless, Broadcom (Roman Makurin)
> 
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:42:04 +0400
>> From: Roman Makurin <drolyk at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: Wireless, Broadcom
>> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
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>>  , 22/10/2008  11:05 -0400, Vincent Onelli :
>>> I would like to but I could not find the side to download it, I appreciate if you
>>> happen to have a link for me.
>>> thank you
>>> Vinny 
>> http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php
>>
> Thank you so much for the link, I download the file
> "hybrid-portsrc-x86_32_5_10_27_6.tar.gz" and the readme files, the
> direction are written for people that are familiar with Linux. I got
> stuck on step 5 "make -C /lib/modules/<2.6.xx.xx>/build M='pwd'" I
> replaced the contents of <2.6.xx.xx> with "2.6.26.6-79.fc9.i686" which
> is the directory I found in my computer in the directory there is a file
> "build" and yet the result No such file or directory I try also as root,
> same problem. Any help is greatly appreciate. Vinny

You need to make sure you have the "kernel-devel" RPM installed and it's
easier to use

	make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build M=`pwd`

command.  Note that those tick marks are graves (backwards
appostrophes), typically found on the key with the tilde ("~").
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