Re: kernel versus broadcom wlan

["wauhugo@yahoo.com" <wauhugo@yahoo.com>]

Celejar wrote:
> The status of support for [9]4311 rev 02 cards is not entirely clear;
> Larry Finger (one of the devs) wrote on Sep. 24, 2007[0]:
>
>   
> > Harry Wert wrote:
> >     
> > > Don't know if this will help but it might. I am using a HP Pavillion
> > > dv9210 with AMD dual processor 64bit and 2G memory.  It contains a
> > > Broadcom Corporation BCM94311 MCG wlan mini-pci card which states it is
> > > rev 01. It worked well with feisty and works well on gutsy EXCEPT on my
> > >       
>
> [snip]
>
>   
> > The rev 01 cards work fine for most people. It is the rev02 ones that are a problem.
> >     
>
> >From the b43 website [1]:
>
>   
> > bcm4311 rev 2 / bcm4312 (needs patches for 2.6.24)
> >     
>
> Ask on the b43 list about the current status of support for your card.
>
> [0]
> http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/bcm43xx-dev/2007-September/005945.html
> [1] http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#supported
>
>   
Thank you.
According to this post 
https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/bcm43xx-dev/2008-January/006622.html
did I fetch the patch from 
http://linuxwireless.org/download/b43/patch_2.6.24_for_4311_2
and copied the file to /usr/src/

then followed these actions to build the kernel from debian 2.6.24 
source with these patches:
# ln -s linux-source-2.6.24 /usr/src/linux
# cp /boot/config-2.6.24-1-amd64 /usr/src/linux/.config
# cd /usr/src/linux
# patch -p1 <patch_2.6.24_for_4311_2
# make clean
# make xconfig
# make-kpkg clean
# fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=-b43 kernel_image 
kernel_headers
# cd ..
# sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-2.6.24-b43_2.6.24-b43-10.00.Custom_amd64.deb
# sudo dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.24-b43_2.6.24-b43-10.00.Custom_amd64.deb
(these lines are handwriting and may have typos)

The installation runs finally into this error:
[...]
Setting up linux-image-2.6.24-b43 (2.6.24-b43-10.00.Custom) ...
Running depmod.
Finding valid ramdisk creators.
Using mkinitrd.yaird to build the ramdisk.
yaird error: unrecognised device: /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00
yaird error: unrecognised device: /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00
yaird error: unrecognised device: 
/sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A03:00
yaird error: unrecognised device: 
/sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A03:00/LNXVIDEO:00
yaird error: unrecognised device: /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00
yaird error: unrecognised device: /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00
yaird error: unrecognised device: 
/sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A03:00
yaird error: unrecognised device: 
/sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A03:00/device:26
yaird error: unrecognised device: 
/sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A03:00/device:26/LNXVIDEO:01
yaird error: there were errors in this run, aborting now without output 
(fatal)
mkinitrd.yaird failed to create initrd image.
Failed to create initrd image.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.24-b43 (--install):
[...]

What can I do, to bypass this error during installation on the debian 
sid system?

Hugo