Re: Anyone compiled the driver for BCM4312?

[Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk>]

On 05 Jun 2009, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 15:19:37 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > I've tried to compile the wireless driver for BCM4312 on two different
> > machines, after running m-a prepare. It always fails with the same
> > message:
> > 
> > /home/ac/bcm/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c:1899: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> > make[3]: *** [/home/ac/bcm/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.o] Error 1
> > make[2]: *** [_module_/home/ac/bcm] Error 2
> > make[1]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
> > make: *** [all] Error 2
> > make: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.29-2-686'
> > 
> > Any ideas about what else to try?
> 
> Make sure you have non-free in your sources.list. Install the
> broadcom-sta-common package and then run:
> 
> module-assistant auto-install broadcom-sta 
> 
> -- 
> Regards,            | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer
>           Florian   |

Thanks very much for this - worked perfectly! Wireless now up and
running.

Anthony

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