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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] broadcom-sta for my wireless card
Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 19:16:15
Message-Id: 9509b026-b561-c5d7-94d2-1e6e53176814@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] broadcom-sta for my wireless card by allan gottlieb
1 On 24/05/2017 20:46, allan gottlieb wrote:
2 > On Wed, May 24 2017, Daniel Frey wrote:
3 >
4 >> On 05/24/2017 11:10 AM, allan gottlieb wrote:
5 >>> My older laptop needs broadcom-sta. Back when I bought and setup the
6 >>> laptop (kernel 3.18.12), I emerged broadcom-sta and wireless worked.
7 >>>
8 >>> Now I am upgrading to kernel 4.9.16. The kernel boots but no wireless.
9 >>> In /lib/modules/3.18.12-gentoo-3 I have net/wireless/wl.ko.
10 >>> In /lib/modules/4.9.16-gentoo-3 there is no net.
11 >>>
12 >>> Am I supposed to remerge broadcom-sta? If so how do I indicate the
13 >>> kernel version for /lib/modules?
14 >>> Do I set the the /usr/src/linux symlink?
15 >>> Do I run 4.9.16 during the emerge?
16 >>> Something else?
17 >>>
18 >>> thanks,
19 >>> allan
20 >>>
21 >>
22 >> Sounds like it installs kernel modules, so yes, after a new kernel build
23 >> you need to re-emerge all packages that install modules. Easiest way to
24 >> emerge all packages that install kernel modules is:
25 >>
26 >> `emerge -a @module-rebuild`
27 >>
28 >> Dan
29 >
30 > Thank you dan, but how do I tell the build which /lib/modules/* to use.
31 > I gave two guesses above.
32 >
33 > allan
34 >
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37 it installs according to the /usr/src/linux symlink
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42 Alan McKinnon
43 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com