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Re: Broadcom b43 Drivers



On 06/05/2015 02:16 AM, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:

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On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 05:54:40PM -0500, Jose Martinez wrote:

I forgot to mention in my last post, when I attempted to install the
old driver from broadcom which I have used before, I get the
message:

    insmod: ERROR: could not insert module wl.ko: Invalid module format

This has not happened in the past, it just installed and worked fine.]

This means that the module was compiled for a different version (or for a
significantly different configuration) of the kernel you're trying to
feed the module to. You can look int that with modinfo (lives in /sbin):

   tomas@rasputin:~$ /sbin/modinfo /lib/modules/3.2.0-3-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atlx/atl1.ko
   filename:       /lib/modules/3.2.0-3-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atlx/atl1.ko
   version:        2.1.3
   license:        GPL
   author:         Xiong Huang <xiong.huang@atheros.com>, Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com>, Jay Cliburn <jcliburn@gmail.com>
   description:    Atheros L1 Gigabit Ethernet Driver
   srcversion:     21557C61B6BC6DA20309204
   alias:          pci:v00001969d00001048sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
   depends:        mii
   intree:         Y
   vermagic:       3.2.0-3-amd64 SMP mod_unload modversions
   parm:           int_mod_timer:Interrupt moderator timer (array of int)
   parm:           debug:Message level (0=none,...,16=all) (int)

HTH
- -- tomás
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I understand. It is true that this driver was compiled back in August under Wheezy. What I do find interesting is that I know that this driver was working on a system upgraded from Wheezy to Jessie. However, with a clean install of Jessie, it does not.
Nevertheless, the problem was solved when I got the original Jessie kernel, without my tramping around messing it up, and installed the firmware-b43-install package. I didn't think that that had worked because I forgot the necessary step of rebooting after the installation. The driver automatically uploads the firmware to the chip at boot up, and since I didn't reboot, the firmware did not get uploaded and it did not work. Once I rebooted, everything came out fine. In fact, this post is being sent through that BC4321 chip to my wireless network. (I was wired yesterday.) 

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JM
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