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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

Take care,

vb

so i just saw that hulu.com labs has recently published a desktop player for linux. using my rpm-slackpack script , i converted the fedora packages they have for download, into slackware tgz’s.

you can download the i386 and x86_64 from cardinal.lizella.net/~vbatts/

once you’ve downloaded and installed it, pending you have the flash-player-plugin installed from slackbuilds.org, or some other means, you will need to edit the file ~/.huludesktop, on the line “flash_location = (null)”, to the location of the flash library. For me, its as follows.

$ grep libflash /var/log/packages/flash-player-plugin-10.0_r32-x86_64-1_SBo
usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

then you have a command `huludesktop`, and away you go!

Take care,

vb

So I have *finally* received the 9 inch Dell mini that I had ordered over a month ago. The device pre-installed with Ubuntu was much more preferable, even though the release is a couple of versions old now.

Everything is great so far, but the first thing that i had to do was update the version of OpenOffice.org being used. Its not so much that I have any problems with version 2.4, but rather everything else I am using is version 3.0 or 3.1.  I have seen several issues when opening and transferring an *.odt between varying versions of openoffice.  Its never fun to lose or mess up formating.

Luckily for me, there were only a couple of dependencies that had to be resolved and the packages I lost, didn’t really impact me.

First off, I had to add the project that maintains the lastest OOo for Ubuntu. Either through the GUI or to /etc/apt/sources.list, add

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu hardy main

and then wget their key and import it. I panzied out and used the GUI to import it.

http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu/dists/hardy/Release.gpg

you next apt-get update, and should remove the following to packages, and all their dependencies.

aptitude remove openoffice.org-l10n-en-za openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb

at which point, you are clear to do an

aptitude dist-upgrade

all done!

take care,

vb

a few posts ago i showed how to convert the SuSE *.rpm’s from the google-gadgets-for-linux project, into slackware packages.
well for a couple of their releases now, i’ve been maintaining a Slackware build script. you can browse it on my viewcvs or check it out on subversion

svn co svn://hashbangbash.com/src/pub/SlackBuilds/google-gadgets/

have fun !