Possible bug/error in web pages
Alexander James Bourne Shearn
A.J.B.Shearn at sms.ed.ac.uk
Wed Mar 14 15:32:10 EDT 2012
Quoting Rafa? Mi?ecki <zajec5 at gmail.com> on Wed, 14 Mar 2012 19:45:34 +0100:
> 2012/3/14 Alexander James Bourne Shearn <A.J.B.Shearn at sms.ed.ac.uk>:
>> I've found the relevant posts on the mailing list about the B43_BCMA_EXTRA
>> flag. Only thing is, I'm not sure where to set this! Is it during kernel
>> compilation, or is it a flag for a different package? Can I set it somewhere
>> when I build the compat-wireless package instead of compiling the entire
>> kernel?
>
> Please, keep b43-dev as Cc.
>
> Yes, if you're using recent kernel you need to use
> B43_BCMA_EXTRA
> It has to be set at compilation time. I don't know much about
> compat-wireless, it should be possible to use B43_BCMA_EXTRA for
> compat-wireless as well, but I can't say how.
>
> --
> Rafa?
>
>
Thanks - got it all sorted!
Just to document what I did: downloaded compat-wireless, and compiled
with B43_BCMA_EXTRA='y'.
Then did 'make unload', and 'modprobe b43'. All works fine, injection
working great.
I'll write this up somewhere to document for other users.
Cheers for the help!
Yours,
Alex Shearn
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