CentOS Wireless, 2nd try.

[nujinini]

Hi!

I have successfully reinstalled & updated CentOS and have gotten the correct kernel this time.

However, as I was trying to make wireless work, everything was going quite good until the third part of the guide ( HowTos/Laptops/Wireless/Broadcom - CentOS Wiki) where it talks about typedefs.h which is quite new to me and honestly, seems a bit advance for my level .

May I request for some help again please? I am posting my output up to the third part where I hit the bump. Thanks in advance!

[jun@localhost ~]$ /sbin/lspci | grep Broadcom
06:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)
07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5906M Fast Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
[jun@localhost ~]$ su -
Password: 
[root@localhost ~]# yum install kernel-headers kernel-devel gcc
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * addons: mirror.web.com.ph
 * base: mirror.web.com.ph
 * extras: mirror.web.com.ph
 * updates: mirror.web.com.ph
Setting up Install Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package gcc.i386 0:4.1.2-46.el5_4.2 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: libgomp >= 4.1.2-46.el5_4.2 for package: gcc
--> Processing Dependency: glibc-devel >= 2.2.90-12 for package: gcc
---> Package kernel-devel.i686 0:2.6.18-164.11.1.el5 set to be installed
---> Package kernel-headers.i386 0:2.6.18-164.11.1.el5 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
---> Package glibc-devel.i386 0:2.5-42.el5_4.3 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: glibc-headers = 2.5-42.el5_4.3 for package: glibc-devel
--> Processing Dependency: glibc-headers for package: glibc-devel
---> Package libgomp.i386 0:4.4.0-6.el5 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
---> Package glibc-headers.i386 0:2.5-42.el5_4.3 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

================================================================================
 Package              Arch       Version                    Repository     Size
================================================================================
Installing:
 gcc                  i386       4.1.2-46.el5_4.2           updates       5.2 M
 kernel-devel         i686       2.6.18-164.11.1.el5        updates       5.3 M
 kernel-headers       i386       2.6.18-164.11.1.el5        updates       1.0 M
Installing for dependencies:
 glibc-devel          i386       2.5-42.el5_4.3             updates       2.0 M
 glibc-headers        i386       2.5-42.el5_4.3             updates       601 k
 libgomp              i386       4.4.0-6.el5                base           70 k

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install      6 Package(s)         
Update       0 Package(s)         
Remove       0 Package(s)         

Total download size: 14 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/6): libgomp-4.4.0-6.el5.i386.rpm                      |  70 kB     00:01     
(2/6): glibc-headers-2.5-42.el5_4.3.i386.rpm             | 601 kB     00:16     
(3/6): kernel-headers-2.6.18-164.11.1.el5.i386.rpm       | 1.0 MB     00:20     
(4/6): glibc-devel-2.5-42.el5_4.3.i386.rpm               | 2.0 MB     01:18     
http://mirror.web.com.ph/centos/5.4/updates/i386/RPMS/glibc-devel-2.5-42.el5_4.3.i386.rpm: [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out
Trying other mirror.
(4/6): glibc-devel-2.5-42.el5_4.3.i386.rpm               | 2.0 MB     00:01     
(5/6): gcc-4.1.2-46.el5_4.2.i386.rpm                     | 5.2 MB     02:01     
(6/6): kernel-devel-2.6.18-164.11.1.el5.i686.rpm         | 5.3 MB     02:02     
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total                                            39 kB/s |  14 MB     06:06     
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Installing     : kernel-headers                                           1/6 
  Installing     : glibc-headers                                            2/6 
  Installing     : glibc-devel                                              3/6 
  Installing     : kernel-devel                                             4/6 
  Installing     : libgomp                                                  5/6 
  Installing     : gcc                                                      6/6 

Installed:
  gcc.i386 0:4.1.2-46.el5_4.2                                                   
  kernel-devel.i686 0:2.6.18-164.11.1.el5                                       
  kernel-headers.i386 0:2.6.18-164.11.1.el5                                     

Dependency Installed:
  glibc-devel.i386 0:2.5-42.el5_4.3     glibc-headers.i386 0:2.5-42.el5_4.3    
  libgomp.i386 0:4.4.0-6.el5           

Complete!
[root@localhost ~]# mkdir -p /usr/local/src/hybrid-wl
[root@localhost ~]# cd /usr/local/src/hybrid-wl
[root@localhost hybrid-wl]# tar xvfz /path/to/the/tarball/hybrid-portsrc-x86_64-v5.10.91.9.3.tar.gz
tar: /path/to/the/tarball/hybrid-portsrc-x86_64-v5.10.91.9.3.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
[root@localhost hybrid-wl]# '/home/jun/Desktop/hybrid-portsrc-x86_32-v5.10.91.9.3.tar.gz' 
-bash: /home/jun/Desktop/hybrid-portsrc-x86_32-v5.10.91.9.3.tar.gz: Permission denied
[root@localhost hybrid-wl]# tar xvfz '/home/jun/Desktop/hybrid-portsrc-x86_32-v5.10.91.9.3.tar.gz' 
Makefile
lib/
lib/wlc_hybrid.o_shipped
lib/LICENSE.txt
src/
src/include/
src/include/epivers.h
src/include/bcmdefs.h
src/include/bcmendian.h
src/include/bcmutils.h
src/include/bcmwifi.h
src/include/linux_osl.h
src/include/linuxver.h
src/include/osl.h
src/include/pcicfg.h
src/include/typedefs.h
src/include/proto/
src/include/proto/802.11.h
src/include/proto/802.1d.h
src/include/proto/bcmeth.h
src/include/proto/bcmevent.h
src/include/proto/ethernet.h
src/include/proto/wpa.h
src/include/wlioctl.h
src/shared/
src/shared/linux_osl.c
src/wl/
src/wl/sys/
src/wl/sys/wl_dbg.h
src/wl/sys/wl_export.h
src/wl/sys/wl_iw.c
src/wl/sys/wl_iw.h
src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c
src/wl/sys/wl_linux.h
src/wl/sys/wlc_key.h
src/wl/sys/wlc_pub.h
[root@localhost hybrid-wl]# chown -R someuser.somegroup /usr/local/src/hybrid-wl
chown: `someuser.somegroup': invalid user
[root@localhost hybrid-wl]# chown -R jun.jun /usr/local/src/hybrid-wl[root@localhost hybrid-wl]# exit
logout

[jun@localhost ~]$ make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/ M=`pwd`
make: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-164.11.1.el5-i686'
scripts/Makefile.build:17: /home/jun/Makefile: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `/home/jun/Makefile'.  Stop.
make: *** [_module_/home/jun] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-164.11.1.el5-i686'
[jun@localhost ~]$ su -
Password: 
[root@localhost ~]# define TYPEDF_BOOL
-bash: define: command not found
[root@localhost ~]# nano typdefs.h
[root@localhost ~]# cat typdefs.h
cat: typdefs.h: No such file or directory
[root@localhost ~]# uname -r
2.6.18-164.11.1.el5
[root@localhost ~]# typedefs.h
-bash: typedefs.h: command not found
[root@localhost ~]#

[reed9]

[root@localhost hybrid-wl]# chown -R jun.jun /usr/local/src/hybrid-wl
[root@localhost hybrid-wl]# exit
logout

[jun@localhost ~]$ make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/ M=`pwd`

Here is your error. When you did exit, you left the working directory. You need to change back and then run the make command.

[root@localhost hybrid-wl]# chown -R jun.jun /usr/local/src/hybrid-wl[root@localhost hybrid-wl]# exit
logout

cd /usr/local/src/hybrid-wl
make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/ M=`pwd`

And then, assuming the error crops up, and I build the module on my Arch box without an error, you just need to edit typedefs.h like any other file. It should be in /usr/local/src/hybrid-wl/src/include

nano -c /usr/local/src/hybrid-wl/src/include/typedefs.h

EDIT: This should be run as root.

The -c option with nano will show you the line number in the status bar. Navigate to the line number shown in the error and comment out the offending lines as shown by the guide.