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gnucash latest unstable

February 27th, 2010 vbatts No comments

just a quick bump that i have uploaded my latest slackware builds of gnucash to cardinal

it will still all the dependencies. and now can use libdbi (for database storage), and webkit (for rendering reports). such as it is, i have compiled these in with these builds.

enjoy and take care,

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linux 2.6.32.3 and the Broadcom STA wireless driver

January 18th, 2010 vbatts No comments

on the recent release of the 2.6.32 series kernel in the slackware-current branch, currently 2.6.32.3, it has posed a bit of a minor frustration on this Dell mini 9″ and its broadcom 4312

vbatts@mini:~$ lspci | grep Network
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)

appearantly in the kernel headers, the definition of schedule() has moved around a little. Using the drivers downloaded from here (currently version 5.10.91.9.3), if you are getting an error like



vbatts@current:~/bcm1$ make
KBUILD_NOPEDANTIC=1 make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build M=`pwd`
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.32.3'
  LD      /home/vbatts/bcm1/built-in.o
  CC [M]  /home/vbatts/bcm1/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.o
/home/vbatts/bcm1/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c: In function 'wl_free':
/home/vbatts/bcm1/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c:705: error: implicit declaration of function 'schedule'
make[2]: *** [/home/vbatts/bcm1/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/vbatts/bcm1] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.32.3'
make: *** [all] Error 2

then the following patch will just add include the needed headers to move you along in compiling your wl.ko module


cat ../hybrid_sta-2.3.32.patch | patch -p1

at which point you should be gravy to proceed as usual.

vbatts@current:~/bcm2$ make
KBUILD_NOPEDANTIC=1 make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build M=`pwd`
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.32.3'
LD      /home/vbatts/bcm2/built-in.o
CC [M]  /home/vbatts/bcm2/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.o
CC [M]  /home/vbatts/bcm2/src/wl/sys/wl_iw.o
CC [M]  /home/vbatts/bcm2/src/shared/linux_osl.o
LD [M]  /home/vbatts/bcm2/wl.o
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST 1 modules
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in /home/vbatts/bcm2/wl.o
see include/linux/module.h for more information
CC      /home/vbatts/bcm2/wl.mod.o
LD [M]  /home/vbatts/bcm2/wl.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.32.3'
vbatts@current:~/bcm2$ ls
Makefile  Module.symvers  built-in.o  lib/  modules.order  src/  wl.ko  wl.mod.c  wl.mod.o  wl.o
vbatts@current:~/bcm2$ sudo mv wl.ko /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/
vbatts@current:~/bcm2$ sudo depmod -a
vbatts@current:~/bcm2$ sudo modprobe wl

and do not forget to `unset ARCH` before compiling