| Summary: | wl.ko does not exist on i686 | ||
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| Product: | Fedora | Reporter: | ragde <bugzilla> |
| Component: | broadcom-wl | Assignee: | NVieville <nicolas.vieville> |
| Status: | RESOLVED EXPIRED | ||
| Severity: | major | CC: | leigh123linux |
| Priority: | P1 | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | GNU/Linux | ||
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Hello, Thanks for reporting this issue. In order to use Broadcom wireless driver from rpmfusion repository for i686 or x86_64 architectures you have to install akmod-wl package: dnf install akmod-wl You also can find this package on the rpmfusion repository: https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/releases/27/Everything/i386/os/repoview/akmod-wl.html Feel free to make any comment about this subject. Cordially, -- NVieville Hello, Many Thanks for your suggestions. Up to now, I had "dnf install kmod-wl". Now I did "dnf install akmod-wl" according to your recommendation. However, still I can't find any "wl.ko". find /lib/modules/4.13.13-300.fc27.i686... -name "wl.ko" does not give any result. I also downloaded the source. There it turns out that I may be not proficient enough to generate the proper source. In the unpacked rpm I can find /usr/src/akmods, and there I find the source tar from Sep 2015 (the original) together with patch information. I guess there should be some automatism for generation of the most recent source, only that I don't know how. Is it git? How do I cope with this? I would be grateful, if you could provide me some further advice. Cordially --- Edgar Hello, Maybe you should try to build the module for all the installed kernels. In a root console type: akmods --force Reboot may be needed. This link should help too: https://www.mankier.com/1/akmods In case the module had already been build for your kernel version, removing the generated kmod-wl-xxxx package could help akmods command to rebuild it. It is not needed to download the sources of the module if you install akmod-wl package. Feel free to make any comment about this subject. Cordially, -- NVieville (In reply to ragde from comment #0) > I just installed Fedora 27 in 32 bit version EOL |
I just installed Fedora 27 in 32 bit version and installed broadcom-wl from the rpmfusion non-free repository. I verified that broadcom-wl is installed with "dnf install -y broadcom-wl". find /lib/modules/4.13.... -name "wl.ko" does not give any result. I'm afraid that the i686 non-free repository may not be complete regarding broadcom-wl. On earlier kernel releases I usually compiled the broadcom driver myself and installed it manually. However, the kernel includes and structures appear to have changed a lot since then. Effectively, I was not able to succeed even with some ad hoc changes inside the source, though I'm not a kernel programmer. Helpful could also be a source tar that compiles smoothly with the F27 kernel. I would be grateful for any help and/or suggestion.