Ok, well I think I figured out what dd-wrt is doing with broadcom-wl, took forever due to there being pretty much zero documentation and the whole source tree being ridiculously confusing. Their build system for the broadcom-wl appears to be a hybrid kernel agnostic system in which OS-independent wlc_ binary files are used to create the kernel specific wl.ko, I was able to compile broadcom-wl against multiple 3.x kernel version successfully as far as I can tell(getting entire dd-wrt to compile is a bit more work due to tons of broken symlinks/poor documentation etc). http://svn.dd-wrt.com/browser/src/linux/universal/linux-3.11/brcm/mipsel/wl should be the relevant directory. Per the readme: Naming conventions: The driver prefix is "wl" . Port (os) specific files, routines, and data structures start with "wl_" . Common (os-independent) files, routines, and data structures start with "wlc_" .
I'm not sure if these files are from public tarballs or not but they seem to work for most configurations from looking at reports. They are definitely different from most router tarballs which appear to use the os specific wl_ files. This appears to be similar to how OpenWRT builds broadcom-wl to some degree but appears to also be significantly more up to date and more functional and a more official broadcom method. I could be wrong about some of this but it appears we should be able to replace current methods with this and fix a lot of problems. On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 6:28 AM, Gert Doering <g...@greenie.muc.de> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 05:45:26AM -0500, James Hilliard wrote: > > I thought DD-WRT was only using public tarball drivers.I looked through > > their source and everything seems to match up with tarbar type wl.o files > > and so on. > > Try building from their public source. > > Half of the relevant broadcom bits are not there, so you plainly *can't*... > > gert > -- > USENET is *not* the non-clickable part of WWW! > // > www.muc.de/~gert/ > Gert Doering - Munich, Germany > g...@greenie.muc.de > fax: +49-89-35655025 > g...@net.informatik.tu-muenchen.de > > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-devel mailing list > openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel > >
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