BCM4312 issues

mpharter · n00b Joined: 01 Aug 2008 Posts: 36

Ok, I know this has been posted before but ive tried everything I have found to try to get my wireless card working. I decided to use the broadcom proprietary drivers. Because I have used those drivers on other distros and it worked. Thus I went to the gentoo wiki and followed the instructions there. It failed so I went on to the broadcom-sta package in portage to see if that would work. After setting the necessary options in the kernal I emerged it which was successful. However modprobe wl results in:

assaf · Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 1:54 pm Post subject:

I've had the same problem with broadcom-sta. The thing is that it uses the old kernel wifi stack, and I had already disabled it.
So to fix the symbol error, you need to reenable the "old" stack: "Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack (DEPRECATED)" or CONFIG_IEEE80211 and also the encryption modules under it (WEP, TKIP, CCMP).
Then rebuild your kernel and try again.

mpharter · n00b Joined: 01 Aug 2008 Posts: 36

Thanks for your help. I tried your suggestion and enabled the things you said. I also tried making things modules. Both times I was still get the dmesg error thing. Is there a step I missed? I have also tried recompiling broadcom-sta and it still gives the same error.

assaf · Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 10:51 pm Post subject:

hmmm... maybe not the same problem.

Silly question: did you reboot into the new kernel?

mpharter · n00b Joined: 01 Aug 2008 Posts: 36

Yeah, unfourtunately its not that easily fixed. Either that or I made a different simple error.