Problem compiling BCM Wireless driver on 2.6.37 (lib80211 symbol issue)

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Sun Mar 20 11:58:09 EDT 2011


On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 09:04:21PM +0530, Shreyansh Jain wrote:
> Dear List,
> 
> I recently compiled and booted up the 2.6.37 kernel on my Ubuntu
> (10.04), from 2.6.36.1. I have been trying to compile the Broadcom
> Wireless driver on 2.6.37, after making some changes in the source
> code. Just to add, this driver has been working fine on 2.6.36.1 which
> my machine ran earlier.

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Why not ask the authors of that code?  As it is closed source, they are
the only ones that can legally help you out.

Or you could try the 2.6.38 kernel which has support for this hardware
already in it...

best of luck,

greg k-h



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