[SOLVED] Cannot upgrade system because of wlan

Question

Hi all, since 3 days i cannot upgrade my system because of broadcom wl dependencies and kernel version.
I tried everything i know to fix this, but nothing happens.
This is what i get when upgrading
┌─[smau @ neplero]-[~]
└─[21:41:26]-[ $ ]> yaourt --noconfirm -Syu -d --ignore broadcom-wl
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
:: broadcom-wl: requires kernel26<2.6.33
┌─[smau @ neplero]-[~]
└─[21:41:52]-[ $ ]> uname -a
Linux neplero 2.6.32-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Mar 15 20:44:03 CET 2010 x86_64 Genuine Intel(R) CPU U2300 @ 1.20GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
edit: this is my network card
┌─[smau @ neplero]-[~]
└─[21:57:43]-[ $ ]> lspci | grep Network
02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)
that doesn't seem to be supported here http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Dri … CI_devices
i've been trying b43 driver, but wl works better for me than b43, so i'd like to stay with it.
any suggestion?
thanks
Last edited by samuele.mattiuzzo (2010-04-13 22:17:32)

Answer 1

nope, i did it (b43 -w bla bla bla) and all went good (as it said...)
┌─[smau @ neplero]-[~/b43/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/kmod]
└─[22:01:19]-[ $ ]> sudo b43-fwcutter -w "/lib/firmware/" wl_apsta.o
This file is recognised as:
ID : FW11
filename : wl_apsta.o
version : 351.126
MD5 : 9207bc565c2fc9fa1591f6c7911d3fc0
Extracting b43/ucode5.fw
Extracting b43/ucode11.fw
Extracting b43/ucode13.fw
Extracting b43/pcm5.fw
Extracting b43/b0g0initvals5.fw
Extracting b43/b0g0bsinitvals5.fw
Extracting b43/a0g0initvals5.fw
Extracting b43/a0g1initvals5.fw
Extracting b43/a0g0bsinitvals5.fw
Extracting b43/a0g1bsinitvals5.fw
Extracting b43/lp0initvals13.fw
Extracting b43/lp0bsinitvals13.fw
Extracting b43/b0g0initvals13.fw
Extracting b43/b0g0bsinitvals13.fw
Extracting b43/a0g1initvals13.fw
Extracting b43/a0g1bsinitvals13.fw
Last edited by samuele.mattiuzzo (2010-04-13 20:02:35)