
Many of todays netbooks ship with BroadCom WiFi hardware, but unfortunately due to licensing issues between MeeGo and BroadCom the required wiFi drivers do not currently ship with MeeGo. The best solution at present is to create our own binary driver.
Slaine has provided a guide to resolve this problem:-
Update: This sites fonts do not show the instructions properly. So please go onto Slaines site for the full Instructions.




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rebuild and target requires two hyphens:
rpmbuild -–rebuild –-target=i586 wl-kmod-5.60.246.2-1.src.rpm
Ash, hi.
Stuck at step 6. when I
rpmbuild –rebuild –target=i586 wl-kmod-5.60.246.2-1.src.rpm
I get error
-target=i586: unknown
What am I doing wrong?
I think I got it from the slaie site. It was –target instead of -target as it is here.
Sorry, a complete noob.
rpmbuild –rebuild –target=i586 wl-kmod-5.60.246.2-1.src.rpm
In the above there are two hyphens before “rebuild” and “target”, but in this font shows both hyphens as one slightly longer line.
Thanks Siddqq for pointing that out and glad kevinaux that you got it resolved.
Is there any way we can do this offline? I do not have any way to get MeeGo connect to internet(In fact thats precise reason I am trying enable wifi in first place)
I got a 404 on the rpm build step and then looked at the source link (slaine.org) to find that it has been updated. The updated instructions got me going.
The above instructions are a little out of date:
you will get rebuild errors. Check slaine site for a link to the latest build. As of today it is wl-kmod-5.60.246.6-1.src.rpm.
hi,
Tried the instructions. goes fine until the rebuild option.
It seems something has changed?
I get the following error:
++ basename http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/hybrid-portsrc_x86-32_v5.60.246.6.tar.gz
+ file1=hybrid-portsrc_x86-32_v5.60.246.6.tar.gz
+ ‘[' '!' -f hybrid-portsrc_x86-32_v5.60.246.6.tar.gz ']‘
+ wget –timeout=5 http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/hybrid-portsrc_x86-32_v5.60.246.6.tar.gz
–2010-12-25 15:50:58– http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/hybrid-portsrc_x86-32_v5.60.246.6.tar.gz
Resolving http://www.broadcom.com... 208.70.88.55
Connecting to http://www.broadcom.com|208.70.88.55|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 404 Not Found
2010-12-25 15:50:58 ERROR 404: Not Found.
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.VzUikU (%prep)
Help?
Thanks, Pietje
ok trying to follow slaine’s directions when i do step 6 i get
Installing wl-kmod-5.100.82.38-1.src.rpm
warning: user glen does not exist – using root
warning: group glen does not exist – using root
warning: user glen does not exist – using root
warning: group glen does not exist – using root
warning: user glen does not exist – using root
warning: group glen does not exist – using root
warning: user glen does not exist – using root
warning: group glen does not exist – using root
warning: user glen does not exist – using root
warning: group glen does not exist – using root
Building target platforms: i586
Building for target i586
Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.9mCnfz
+ umask 022
+ cd /home/april/rpmbuild/BUILD
+ LANG=C
+ export LANG
+ unset DISPLAY
+ cd /home/april/rpmbuild/SOURCES
++ basename http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/hybrid-portsrc_x86_32-v5_100_82_38.tar.gz
+ file1=hybrid-portsrc_x86_32-v5_100_82_38.tar.gz
+ ‘[' '!' -f hybrid-portsrc_x86_32-v5_100_82_38.tar.gz ']‘
+ wget –timeout=5 http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/hybrid-portsrc_x86_32-v5_100_82_38.tar.gz
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.9mCnfz: line 35: wget: command not found
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.9mCnfz (%prep)
RPM build errors:
user glen does not exist – using root
group glen does not exist – using root
user glen does not exist – using root
group glen does not exist – using root
user glen does not exist – using root
group glen does not exist – using root
user glen does not exist – using root
group glen does not exist – using root
user glen does not exist – using root
group glen does not exist – using root
Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.9mCnfz (%prep)
any ideas. i am new to command line so cannot sus out the issue
thanks in advance
matt
I saw a post somewhere else that since the package (or whatever) must have been built by some “glen” character, you should be able to do sudo adduser glen and have everything taken care of from there on out. I’m just about to give it a whirl myself.
Just a small niggly note, your link to Slaines is wrong, two http:// in the link.
Thanks for this post though, was looking for the link
Link fixed. Thanks
you have to copy the link rpmbuild –rebuild –target=i586 wl-kmod-5.60.246.2-1.src.rpm and chance the two hyphens before rebuild and target manual!