acer aspire 5742g wlan

[pet3rs]

Hello! my wlan won't work sady to say. this is what lspci gives:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor PCI Express x16 Root Port (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller (rev 06)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 05)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 05)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev 05)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev a5)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 4 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem (rev 05)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 0df4 (rev a1)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM57780 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 01)
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43225 802.11b/g/n (rev 01)
ff:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers (rev 02)
ff:00.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder (rev 02)
ff:02.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 (rev 02)
ff:02.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 (rev 02)
ff:02.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02)
ff:02.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02)

the kernel log follows next post


what's wrong with this? already tried to compile the x64 driver for the wlan but it keeps saying

make
KBUILD_NOPEDANTIC=1 make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build M=`pwd`
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.40.4-5.fc15.x86_64'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `Folder'.  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.40.4-5.fc15.x86_64'
make: *** [all] Error 2

gcc and kernel-devel is installed. Would really appreciate any help here!

Greets

[pet3rs]

pardon my pushing but I'm dying here. Just don't get it. Even after patching "src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c" it still won't run... would someone please put me out of my misery?

Greets

here the kernel-log to big for posting... it says something about "unsupported hardware please report"

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YZ6XI7FM

[stoat]

I don't know what to do about that. Sorry. But what about trying the pre-compiled binary broadcom-wl driver from RPM Fusion? If you don't have some special reason not to try, it would take about two minutes to install it using your wired NIC and get the answer (install the repos, run yum install akmod-wl, reboot, check for networks). If it doesn't work at first, there are several kernel modules known to interfere with it (e.g., ssb, bcma, acer_wmi). Blacklisting those usually lets broadcom-wl take off. Another common mistake after installing akmod-wl is to reboot back into an old kernel that doesn't have a kernel-devel installed (don't do that).

P.S.: You should fully update the system via your wired NIC before installing akmod-wl. Otherwise, the akmod may not have what it needs (i.e., kernel-devel) to generate the kmods for an old kernel.