[Solved] Problems installing broadcom-wl

Question

So, I've been using Arch for about a week now (first time user), and I'm having problems installing my wifi driver.
My network controller is Broadcom BCM43142. I know that there are many issues with Broadcom chipsets, but this one worked on Ubuntu before, with the Broadcom STA driver.
Since I worked there, I installed the driver from here (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/broadcom-wl/), extracted the tarball, cd'd into the folder, did makepkg and everything seemed to install perfectly. Here's the output:
[swaraj@swaraj broadcom-wl]$ makepkg
==> Making package: broadcom-wl 5.100.82.112-13 (Mon Aug 5 15:04:42 UTC 2013)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving sources...
-> Found hybrid-portsrc_x86_64-v5_100_82_112.tar.gz
-> Found modprobe.d
-> Found license.patch
-> Found linux-recent.patch
==> Validating source files with sha1sums...
hybrid-portsrc_x86_64-v5_100_82_112.tar.gz ... Passed
modprobe.d ... Passed
license.patch ... Passed
linux-recent.patch ... Passed
==> Extracting sources...
-> Extracting hybrid-portsrc_x86_64-v5_100_82_112.tar.gz with bsdtar
==> Removing existing pkg/ directory...
==> Starting build()...
patching file Makefile
patching file src/include/bcmutils.h
patching file src/wl/sys/wl_cfg80211.c
patching file src/wl/sys/wl_iw.h
patching file src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c
patching file src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c
Hunk #1 succeeded at 244 (offset 4 lines).
make: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-3.10.3-1-ARCH'
CFG80211 API is prefered for this kernel version
Using CFG80211 API
CC [M] /home/swaraj/Firefox-downloads/broadcom-wl/src/src/shared/linux_osl.o
CC [M] /home/swaraj/Firefox-downloads/broadcom-wl/src/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.o
CC [M] /home/swaraj/Firefox-downloads/broadcom-wl/src/src/wl/sys/wl_cfg80211.o
LD [M] /home/swaraj/Firefox-downloads/broadcom-wl/src/wl.o
Building modules, stage 2.
CFG80211 API is prefered for this kernel version
Using CFG80211 API
MODPOST 1 modules
LD [M] /home/swaraj/Firefox-downloads/broadcom-wl/src/wl.ko
make: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-3.10.3-1-ARCH'
==> Entering fakeroot environment...
==> Starting package()...
==> Tidying install...
-> Purging unwanted files...
-> Compressing man and info pages...
-> Stripping unneeded symbols from binaries and libraries...
==> Creating package "broadcom-wl"...
-> Generating .PKGINFO file...
-> Adding install file...
-> Generating .MTREE file...
-> Compressing package...
==> Leaving fakeroot environment.
==> Finished making: broadcom-wl 5.100.82.112-13 (Mon Aug 5 15:04:45 UTC 2013)
But now, when I pacman -U broadcom-wl, I get this error:
[swaraj@swaraj broadcom-wl]$ sudo pacman -U broadcom-wl
[sudo] password for swaraj:
loading packages...
error: 'broadcom-wl': could not find or read package
Any idea what could be causing this?
Edit: I tried the same thing with b43-firmware (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/b43-firmware/), and I get the same output when trying to pacman -U. Is there something wrong with my system?
Last edited by swaraj (2013-08-05 11:38:23)

Answer 1

Pass the full filename to pacman -U
-U, --upgrade
Upgrade or add package(s) to the system and install the required dependencies from
sync repos. Either a URL or file path can be specified. This is a “remove-then-add”
process. See Upgrade Options below; also see Handling Config Files for an explanation
on how pacman takes care of config files.