On Sunday, December 25, 2016 at 12:51:31 AM UTC, mail.m...@gmail.com wrote: > My laptop has a BCM4313 WLAN adaptor. > Here's the manufacturer link : > https://www.broadcom.com/products/wireless/wireless-lan-bluetooth/bcm4313#overview > . > > And I'm following this guide on how to install it: > https://onpub.com/install-broadcom-linux-wi-fi-driver-on-fedora-23-s7-a192 > > There's also the manufacturer driver here: > https://www.broadcom.com/products/wireless/wireless-lan-bluetooth/bcm4313#downloads > The instructions on How to Install are here: > https://docs.broadcom.com/docs/1211168561592 > > I managed to download and extract the driver. I also managed to "make" it. > > The problem is when I try to "make install" it. > Here's the error message: > > [user@fedora-23 hybrid_wl_f23]$ sudo make install > install -D -m 755 wl.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net/wireless > install: cannot create regular file > ‘/lib/modules/4.4.31-11.pvops.qubes.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/wl.ko’: > Read-only file system > Makefile:168: recipe for target 'install' failed > make: *** [install] Error 1 > > So the problem is that the file system is read-only. > > In the following link: > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/qubes-users/5pGA68aTb-4/IFuk0wTJBQAJ > Marek Marczykowski-Górecki gives the following solution: > > ************************************** > /lib/modules/(kernel version) is mounted read-only, so you can't modify > it. You can either switch to in-VM kernel[1], or keep that module > (`wl.ko`) in some other directory and load it using `insmod > /path/to/wl.ko`. The former method will require somehow more work, but > will be easier to maintain later. > ************************************** > > I do not know what "In-VM" kernel is. I tried a few things. I opened the > "VM-Settings" for fedora-23 template and saw the "Kernel" option. > Here are the possibilities: > default(4.4.31-11)(current) > 4.4.31-11 > 4.4.14-11 > none > > Additionally, "qvm-prefs my-appvm -s kernel" command describes how "none" > means "kernels subdir in VM". So I set the "kernel" option to "none" using > "qvm-prefs fedora-23 -s kernel none" > > But Now I can't start the Template. > I get the following error message: > > Error while starting the 'fedora-23' VM:VM kernel does not exist: > /var/lib/qubes/vm-templates/fedora-23/kernels/vmlinuz > > After that I tried Marek Marczykowski-Górecki's second solution. i.e. to > insmod the wl.ko file in. > But again I get this error: > > [user@fedora-23 hybrid_wl_f23]$ sudo insmod wl.ko > insmod: ERROR: could not insert module wl.ko: Unknown symbol in module > > > > Some one please help me.
Have you happened to try installing kmod-wl from Rpm Fusion? A few sources I have looked up seem to have gotten it to work for them. http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=248067 https://blogs.fsfe.org/samtuke/?p=257 https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/329725/how-to-use-broadcom-bcm4313-drivers-in-fedora-23 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/45dc9aa2-632c-492f-b520-ca8777f9f9fb%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
