SlackBuilds for BCM4311

joshn · 08-14-2016, 01:15 PM

I'm trying to get wireless working on my Latitude D531 running Slackware 14.2.

At this point iwconfig reports no wireless extensions for lo and eth0.

Another LQ thread suggests using SlackBuilds to get the proper drivers installed.

LQ: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...dv9000-841766/
SB: https://slackbuilds.org/result/?search=bcm&sv=14.2

I'm trying to follow the SlackBuilds HOWTO, but am running into problems.

Specifically, /root/b43-fwcutter-019.tar.bz2: Cannot open: No such file or directory

I've created a b43-fwcutter folder at the root level (along with bin, boot, dev, etc,...) that contains the contents of the extracted b43-fwcutter.tar.gz and the source download b43-fwcutter-019.tar.bz2.

./b43-fwcutter
|-- b43-fwcutter-019.tar.bz2
|-- b43-fwcutter.info
|-- b43-fwcutter.SlackBuild
|-- README
|-- slack-desc

I checked the version number, I'm running bash as root (with su -l), I've made the SlackBuild script executable with chmod, but when I run it I get the the error about not being able to open the tar.bz2 even though it's clearly in that folder.

Any ideas on where I'm going wrong?

-Josh

phenixia2003 · 08-14-2016, 01:52 PM

Hello,

Have no trouble here:

Code:

$ su -
$ wget https://slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/14.2/network/b43-fwcutter.tar.gz
$ tar xf b43-fwcutter.tar.gz
$ cd b43-fwcutter/
$ wget http://bues.ch/b43/fwcutter/b43-fwcutter-019.tar.bz2
$ ls
README  b43-fwcutter-019.tar.bz2  b43-fwcutter.SlackBuild  b43-fwcutter.info  slack-desc
$ ./b43-fwcutter.SlackBuild
./b43-fwcutter.SlackBuild 
b43-fwcutter-019/
b43-fwcutter-019/mklist.py
b43-fwcutter-019/md5.h
b43-fwcutter-019/md5.c
b43-fwcutter-019/fwcutter_list.h
b43-fwcutter-019/fwcutter.h
b43-fwcutter-019/fwcutter.c
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/watch
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/source/
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/source/format
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/rules
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/po/
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/po/templates.pot
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/po/sv.po
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/po/ru.po
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/po/pt.po
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/po/pl.po
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/po/ja.po
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/po/it.po
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/po/id.po
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/po/fr.po
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/po/es.po
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/po/de.po
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/po/da.po
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/po/cs.po
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/po/POTFILES.in
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/patches/
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/patches/series
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43legacy-installer/
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43legacy-installer/usr/
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43legacy-installer/usr/share/
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43legacy-installer/usr/share/lintian/
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43legacy-installer/usr/share/lintian/overrides/
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43legacy-installer/usr/share/lintian/overrides/firmware-b43legacy-installer
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43legacy-installer/usr/share/doc/
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43legacy-installer/usr/share/doc/firmware-b43legacy-installer/
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43legacy-installer/usr/share/doc/firmware-b43legacy-installer/copyright
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43legacy-installer/usr/share/doc/firmware-b43legacy-installer/changelog.gz
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43legacy-installer/usr/share/doc/firmware-b43legacy-installer/changelog.Debian.gz
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43legacy-installer/usr/share/doc/firmware-b43legacy-installer/NEWS.Debian.gz
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43legacy-installer/DEBIAN/
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43legacy-installer/DEBIAN/postrm
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43legacy-installer/DEBIAN/postinst
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43legacy-installer/DEBIAN/md5sums
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43legacy-installer/DEBIAN/control
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43legacy-installer.substvars
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43legacy-installer.postrm
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43legacy-installer.postinst
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43legacy-installer.lintian-overrides
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43legacy-installer.dirs
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43legacy-installer.debhelper.log
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43-installer/
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43-installer/usr/
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43-installer/usr/share/
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43-installer/usr/share/lintian/
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43-installer/usr/share/lintian/overrides/
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43-installer/usr/share/lintian/overrides/firmware-b43-installer
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43-installer/usr/share/doc/
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43-installer/usr/share/doc/firmware-b43-installer/
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43-installer/usr/share/doc/firmware-b43-installer/copyright
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43-installer/usr/share/doc/firmware-b43-installer/changelog.gz
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43-installer/usr/share/doc/firmware-b43-installer/changelog.Debian.gz
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43-installer/usr/share/doc/firmware-b43-installer/NEWS.Debian.gz
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43-installer/DEBIAN/
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43-installer/DEBIAN/postrm
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43-installer/DEBIAN/postinst
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43-installer/DEBIAN/md5sums
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43-installer/DEBIAN/control
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43-installer.substvars
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43-installer.postrm
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43-installer.postinst
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43-installer.lintian-overrides
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43-installer.dirs
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43-installer.debhelper.log
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/files
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/copyright
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/control
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/compat
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/changelog
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/b43-fwcutter.upstream-changelog
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/b43-fwcutter.templates
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/b43-fwcutter.substvars
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/b43-fwcutter.postrm.debhelper
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/b43-fwcutter.postinst
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/b43-fwcutter.manpages
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/b43-fwcutter.docs
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/b43-fwcutter.dirs
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/b43-fwcutter.debhelper.log
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/b43-fwcutter.config
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/NEWS
b43-fwcutter-019/b43-fwcutter.1
b43-fwcutter-019/README
b43-fwcutter-019/Makefile
b43-fwcutter-019/COPYING
     DEPEND   dep/md5.d
     DEPEND   dep/fwcutter.d
     CC       obj/fwcutter.o
     CC       obj/md5.o
     CC       b43-fwcutter

Slackware package maker, version 3.14159.

Searching for symbolic links:

No symbolic links were found, so we won't make an installation script.
You can make your own later in ./install/doinst.sh and rebuild the
package if you like.

This next step is optional - you can set the directories in your package
to some sane permissions. If any of the directories in your package have
special permissions, then DO NOT reset them here!

Would you like to reset all directory permissions to 755 (drwxr-xr-x) and
directory ownerships to root.root ([y]es, [n]o)? n

Creating Slackware package:  /tmp/b43-fwcutter-019-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz

./
install/
install/slack-desc
usr/
usr/man/
usr/man/man1/
usr/man/man1/b43-fwcutter.1.gz
usr/doc/
usr/doc/b43-fwcutter-019/
usr/doc/b43-fwcutter-019/b43-fwcutter.SlackBuild
usr/doc/b43-fwcutter-019/COPYING
usr/doc/b43-fwcutter-019/README
usr/bin/
usr/bin/b43-fwcutter

Slackware package /tmp/b43-fwcutter-019-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz created.

at which point did you get the error message. post the output of of slackbuild execution.

What the output of the command below (do not forget to run it where b43-fwcutter-019.tar.bz2 is stored) :

Code:

$ tar xvf ./b43-fwcutter-019.tar.bz2 -C /tmp

--
SeB

joshn · 08-14-2016, 02:05 PM

root@slackhost:~# /b43-fwcutter/b43-fwcutter.SlackBuild
tar: /root/b43-fwcutter-019.tar.bz2: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

root@slackhost:/b43-fwcutter# tar xvf b43-fwcutter.tar.bz2 -C /tmp
tar: b43-fwcutter.tar.bz2: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

am I just missing something about where I am in terms of directories?

I'm a total newbie with Slackware

bassmadrigal · 08-14-2016, 02:18 PM

Go to the directory where everything is located (I'm assuming b43-fwcutter/), then run the following:

Code:

sh ./b43-fwcutter.SlackBuild
installpkg /tmp/b43-fwcutter*.t?z

If you get any errors, provide the commands with the errors here as well as an ls -la in the same directory.

STDOUBT · 08-14-2016, 02:19 PM

joshn,
You should probably be in the b43-fwcutter directory, and to run the slackbuild,
you need to pre-pend with a "." as shown in the example posted by phenixia2003.
i.e.,

Code:

$ ./b43-fwcutter.SlackBuild

Also, IMHO, it's not best practice to build in the /root directory. I normally have a dedicated ~/Slackbuilds directory to store and build all my slackbuilds. root can work in there.
HTH

joshn · 08-14-2016, 02:29 PM

Code:

root@slackhost:/b43-fwcutter# sh ./b43-fwcutter.SlackBuild
b43-fwcutter-019/
b43-fwcutter-019/mklist.py
b43-fwcutter-019/md5.h
b43-fwcutter-019/md5.c
b43-fwcutter-019/fwcutter_list.h
b43-fwcutter-019/fwcutter.h
b43-fwcutter-019/fwcutter.c
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/watch
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/source/
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/source/format
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/rules
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/po/
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/po/templates.pot
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/po/sv.po
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/po/ru.po
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/po/pt.po
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/po/pl.po
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/po/ja.po
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/po/it.po
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/po/id.po
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/po/fr.po
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/po/es.po
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/po/de.po
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/po/da.po
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/po/cs.po
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/po/POTFILES.in
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/patches/
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/patches/series
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43legacy-installer/
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43legacy-installer/usr/
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43legacy-installer/usr/share/
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43legacy-installer/usr/share/lintian/
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43legacy-installer/usr/share/lintian/overrides/
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43legacy-installer/usr/share/lintian/overrides/firmware-b43legacy-installer
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43legacy-installer/usr/share/doc/
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43legacy-installer/usr/share/doc/firmware-b43legacy-installer/
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43legacy-installer/usr/share/doc/firmware-b43legacy-installer/copyright
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43legacy-installer/usr/share/doc/firmware-b43legacy-installer/changelog.gz
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43legacy-installer/usr/share/doc/firmware-b43legacy-installer/changelog.Debian.gz
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43legacy-installer/usr/share/doc/firmware-b43legacy-installer/NEWS.Debian.gz
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43legacy-installer/DEBIAN/
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43legacy-installer/DEBIAN/postrm
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43legacy-installer/DEBIAN/postinst
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43legacy-installer/DEBIAN/md5sums
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43legacy-installer/DEBIAN/control
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43legacy-installer.substvars
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43legacy-installer.postrm
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43legacy-installer.postinst
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43legacy-installer.lintian-overrides
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43legacy-installer.dirs
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43legacy-installer.debhelper.log
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43-installer/
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43-installer/usr/
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43-installer/usr/share/
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43-installer/usr/share/lintian/
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43-installer/usr/share/lintian/overrides/
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43-installer/usr/share/lintian/overrides/firmware-b43-installer
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43-installer/usr/share/doc/
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43-installer/usr/share/doc/firmware-b43-installer/
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43-installer/usr/share/doc/firmware-b43-installer/copyright
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43-installer/usr/share/doc/firmware-b43-installer/changelog.gz
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43-installer/usr/share/doc/firmware-b43-installer/changelog.Debian.gz
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43-installer/usr/share/doc/firmware-b43-installer/NEWS.Debian.gz
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43-installer/DEBIAN/
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43-installer/DEBIAN/postrm
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43-installer/DEBIAN/postinst
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43-installer/DEBIAN/md5sums
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43-installer/DEBIAN/control
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43-installer.substvars
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43-installer.postrm
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43-installer.postinst
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43-installer.lintian-overrides
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43-installer.dirs
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/firmware-b43-installer.debhelper.log
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/files
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/copyright
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/control
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/compat
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/changelog
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/b43-fwcutter.upstream-changelog
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/b43-fwcutter.templates
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/b43-fwcutter.substvars
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/b43-fwcutter.postrm.debhelper
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/b43-fwcutter.postinst
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/b43-fwcutter.manpages
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/b43-fwcutter.docs
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/b43-fwcutter.dirs
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/b43-fwcutter.debhelper.log
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/b43-fwcutter.config
b43-fwcutter-019/debian/NEWS
b43-fwcutter-019/b43-fwcutter.1
b43-fwcutter-019/README
b43-fwcutter-019/Makefile
b43-fwcutter-019/COPYING
     DEPEND   dep/md5.d
     DEPEND   dep/fwcutter.d
     CC       obj/fwcutter.o
In file included from /usr/include/stdlib.h:24:0,
                 from fwcutter.c:33:
/usr/include/features.h:148:3: warning: #warning "_BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE are deprecated, use _DEFAULT_SOURCE" [-Wcpp]
 # warning "_BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE are deprecated, use _DEFAULT_SOURCE"
   ^
     CC       obj/md5.o
In file included from /usr/include/memory.h:25:0,
                 from md5.c:24:
/usr/include/features.h:148:3: warning: #warning "_BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE are deprecated, use _DEFAULT_SOURCE" [-Wcpp]
 # warning "_BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE are deprecated, use _DEFAULT_SOURCE"
   ^
     CC       b43-fwcutter

Slackware package maker, version 3.141593.

Searching for symbolic links:

No symbolic links were found, so we won't make an installation script.
You can make your own later in ./install/doinst.sh and rebuild the
package if you like.

This next step is optional - you can set the directories in your package
to some sane permissions. If any of the directories in your package have
special permissions, then DO NOT reset them here!

Would you like to reset all directory permissions to 755 (drwxr-xr-x) and
directory ownerships to root.root ([y]es, [n]o)? n

Creating Slackware package:  /tmp/b43-fwcutter-019-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz

./
install/
install/slack-desc
usr/
usr/bin/
usr/bin/b43-fwcutter
usr/man/
usr/man/man1/
usr/man/man1/b43-fwcutter.1.gz
usr/doc/
usr/doc/b43-fwcutter-019/
usr/doc/b43-fwcutter-019/README
usr/doc/b43-fwcutter-019/b43-fwcutter.SlackBuild
usr/doc/b43-fwcutter-019/COPYING

Slackware package /tmp/b43-fwcutter-019-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz created.

root@slackhost:/b43-fwcutter# installpkg /tmp/b43-fwcutter*.t?z
Verifying package b43-fwcutter-019-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz.
Installing package b43-fwcutter-019-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz:
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION:
# b43-fwcutter (firmware extracter)
#
# b43-fwcutter is a tool which can extract firmware from various
# source files.  It's written for BCM43xx driver files.
#
# Homepage: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43
#
Package b43-fwcutter-019-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz installed.

followed by:

Code:

root@slackhost:/b43-firmware# ./b43-firmware.SlackBuild
broadcom-wl-6.30.163.46.wl_apsta.o
This file is recognised as:
  filename   :  wl_apsta.o
  version    :  784.2
  MD5        :  29c8a47094fbae342902d84881a465ff
Extracting b43/lcn1bsinitvals26.fw
Extracting b43/n0bsinitvals22.fw
Extracting b43/lcn0bsinitvals26.fw
Extracting b43/ac1bsinitvals42.fw
Extracting b43/ucode24_lcn.fw
Extracting b43/ht0bsinitvals26.fw
Extracting b43/ucode24_mimo.fw
Extracting b43/n20initvals36.fw
Extracting b43/ucode15.fw
Extracting b43/b0g0bsinitvals9.fw
Extracting b43/lcn405initvals35.fw
Extracting b43/ac1initvals42.fw
Extracting b43/lp0bsinitvals13.fw
Extracting b43/b0g0bsinitvals5.fw
Extracting b43/ucode43.fw
Extracting b43/lp0initvals16.fw
Extracting b43/lp1bsinitvals20.fw
Extracting b43/lcn1initvals25.fw
Extracting b43/b0g0initvals13.fw
Extracting b43/lcn402initvals33.fw
Extracting b43/sslpn3bsinitvals21.fw
Extracting b43/ht0initvals29.fw
Extracting b43/n2bsinitvals19.fw
Extracting b43/sslpn1bsinitvals20.fw
Extracting b43/ucode25_lcn.fw
Extracting b43/lcn0initvals24.fw
Extracting b43/lcn404initvals33.fw
Extracting b43/sslpn1bsinitvals27.fw
Extracting b43/lcn404bsinitvals33.fw
Extracting b43/ucode22_sslpn.fw
Extracting b43/lcn1bsinitvals25.fw
Extracting b43/lcn406initvals37.fw
Extracting b43/ac3initvals43.fw
Extracting b43/lcn2initvals26.fw
Extracting b43/ucode20_sslpn.fw
Extracting b43/lcn403bsinitvals33.fw
Extracting b43/a0g0bsinitvals9.fw
Extracting b43/n0initvals17.fw
Extracting b43/ht0bsinitvals29.fw
Extracting b43/ucode21_sslpn.fw
  ucode time:     21:35:19
Extracting b43/sslpn1initvals20.fw
Extracting b43/sslpn0initvals16.fw
Extracting b43/lcn0initvals26.fw
Extracting b43/ucode27_sslpn.fw
Extracting b43/ucode29_mimo.fw
Extracting b43/ucode21_sslpn_nobt.fw
  ucode time:     21:35:19
Extracting b43/lp0initvals15.fw
Extracting b43/ucode19_sslpn.fw
Extracting b43/lcn1bsinitvals24.fw
Extracting b43/lcn401bsinitvals33.fw
Extracting b43/lp0bsinitvals14.fw
Extracting b43/ucode16_sslpn_nobt.fw
  ucode date:     2012-08-15
Extracting b43/n16bsinitvals30.fw
Extracting b43/a0g1bsinitvals13.fw
Extracting b43/lcn402bsinitvals33.fw
Extracting b43/ucode19_sslpn_nobt.fw
Extracting b43/ucode40.fw
Extracting b43/lcn1initvals24.fw
Extracting b43/sslpn2initvals19.fw
Extracting b43/ac2initvals41.fw
Extracting b43/n16initvals30.fw
Extracting b43/ucode16_lp.fw
Extracting b43/n0initvals22.fw
Extracting b43/sslpn3initvals21.fw
Extracting b43/lp1initvals22.fw
Extracting b43/ac2bsinitvals41.fw
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Slackware package maker, version 3.141593.

Searching for symbolic links:

No symbolic links were found, so we won't make an installation script.
You can make your own later in ./install/doinst.sh and rebuild the
package if you like.

This next step is optional - you can set the directories in your package
to some sane permissions. If any of the directories in your package have
special permissions, then DO NOT reset them here!

Would you like to reset all directory permissions to 755 (drwxr-xr-x) and
directory ownerships to root.root ([y]es, [n]o)? n

Creating Slackware package:  /tmp/b43-firmware-6.30.163.46-fw-1_SBo.tgz

./
install/
install/slack-desc
lib/
lib/firmware/
lib/firmware/b43/
lib/firmware/b43/b0g0initvals13.fw
lib/firmware/b43/lcn0bsinitvals24.fw
lib/firmware/b43/lcn0initvals24.fw
lib/firmware/b43/ucode34_mimo.fw
lib/firmware/b43/ht0bsinitvals29.fw
lib/firmware/b43/ucode16_mimo.fw
lib/firmware/b43/lcn406bsinitvals37.fw
lib/firmware/b43/sslpn3bsinitvals21.fw
lib/firmware/b43/lp0initvals15.fw
lib/firmware/b43/lcn404initvals35.fw
lib/firmware/b43/n0initvals11.fw
lib/firmware/b43/ucode25_mimo.fw
lib/firmware/b43/a0g0initvals9.fw
lib/firmware/b43/lp0bsinitvals13.fw
lib/firmware/b43/lcn2initvals25.fw
lib/firmware/b43/n1bsinitvals20.fw
lib/firmware/b43/a0g0bsinitvals9.fw
lib/firmware/b43/lcn405initvals35.fw
lib/firmware/b43/ucode30_mimo.fw
lib/firmware/b43/sslpn1initvals20.fw
lib/firmware/b43/ucode15.fw
lib/firmware/b43/ucode43.fw
lib/firmware/b43/sslpn1bsinitvals27.fw
lib/firmware/b43/n0bsinitvals22.fw
lib/firmware/b43/lcn400initvals33.fw
lib/firmware/b43/lp1initvals22.fw
lib/firmware/b43/a0g1bsinitvals9.fw
lib/firmware/b43/ucode20_sslpn.fw
lib/firmware/b43/ucode33_lcn40.fw
lib/firmware/b43/ucode26_mimo.fw
lib/firmware/b43/ucode25_lcn.fw
lib/firmware/b43/n2bsinitvals19.fw
lib/firmware/b43/sslpn3initvals21.fw
lib/firmware/b43/ac2initvals41.fw
lib/firmware/b43/ucode19_sslpn.fw
lib/firmware/b43/lcn1initvals24.fw
lib/firmware/b43/n16initvals30.fw
lib/firmware/b43/ucode9.fw
lib/firmware/b43/lcn0initvals25.fw
lib/firmware/b43/ucode22_mimo.fw
lib/firmware/b43/a0g0initvals5.fw
lib/firmware/b43/n20bsinitvals36.fw
lib/firmware/b43/ucode32_mimo.fw
lib/firmware/b43/n0bsinitvals16.fw
lib/firmware/b43/n16bsinitvals30.fw
lib/firmware/b43/a0g1bsinitvals13.fw
lib/firmware/b43/lcn400bsinitvals33.fw
lib/firmware/b43/n0initvals17.fw
lib/firmware/b43/lcn403initvals33.fw
lib/firmware/b43/lcn405bsinitvals35.fw
lib/firmware/b43/n0initvals24.fw
lib/firmware/b43/lp2initvals19.fw
lib/firmware/b43/lp0initvals16.fw
lib/firmware/b43/ucode37_lcn40.fw
lib/firmware/b43/ucode17_mimo.fw
lib/firmware/b43/lcn2initvals26.fw
lib/firmware/b43/n20initvals36.fw
lib/firmware/b43/n19initvals34.fw
lib/firmware/b43/ucode36_mimo.fw
lib/firmware/b43/n0bsinitvals25.fw
lib/firmware/b43/ucode19_sslpn_nobt.fw
lib/firmware/b43/sslpn2bsinitvals19.fw
lib/firmware/b43/ucode13.fw
lib/firmware/b43/lp0initvals14.fw
lib/firmware/b43/lp1initvals20.fw
lib/firmware/b43/lcn407initvals38.fw
lib/firmware/b43/lp0bsinitvals16.fw
lib/firmware/b43/ht0bsinitvals26.fw
lib/firmware/b43/n0bsinitvals17.fw
lib/firmware/b43/sslpn4initvals22.fw
lib/firmware/b43/b0g0bsinitvals5.fw
lib/firmware/b43/ac3bsinitvals43.fw
lib/firmware/b43/b0g0initvals9.fw
lib/firmware/b43/lp0initvals13.fw
lib/firmware/b43/sslpn0bsinitvals16.fw
lib/firmware/b43/lcn0bsinitvals25.fw
lib/firmware/b43/ac1bsinitvals42.fw
lib/firmware/b43/lcn404initvals33.fw
lib/firmware/b43/n2initvals19.fw
lib/firmware/b43/lcn407bsinitvals38.fw
lib/firmware/b43/lcn402initvals33.fw
lib/firmware/b43/ucode5.fw
lib/firmware/b43/sslpn1bsinitvals20.fw
lib/firmware/b43/ucode16_sslpn.fw
lib/firmware/b43/ucode40.fw
lib/firmware/b43/lp2bsinitvals19.fw
lib/firmware/b43/n19bsinitvals34.fw
lib/firmware/b43/ht0initvals26.fw
lib/firmware/b43/ucode27_sslpn.fw
lib/firmware/b43/ac2bsinitvals41.fw
lib/firmware/b43/lcn401bsinitvals33.fw
lib/firmware/b43/lcn0bsinitvals26.fw
lib/firmware/b43/lp0bsinitvals15.fw
lib/firmware/b43/sslpn4bsinitvals22.fw
lib/firmware/b43/lcn1initvals25.fw
lib/firmware/b43/n1initvals20.fw
lib/firmware/b43/lcn1bsinitvals25.fw
lib/firmware/b43/ac0bsinitvals40.fw
lib/firmware/b43/lcn406initvals37.fw
lib/firmware/b43/n0bsinitvals24.fw
lib/firmware/b43/ucode16_sslpn_nobt.fw
lib/firmware/b43/b0g0bsinitvals9.fw
lib/firmware/b43/lcn2bsinitvals26.fw
lib/firmware/b43/lp0bsinitvals14.fw
lib/firmware/b43/lp1bsinitvals20.fw
lib/firmware/b43/n0initvals25.fw
lib/firmware/b43/lcn0initvals26.fw
lib/firmware/b43/lcn403bsinitvals33.fw
lib/firmware/b43/lcn2initvals24.fw
lib/firmware/b43/a0g0bsinitvals5.fw
lib/firmware/b43/n18bsinitvals32.fw
lib/firmware/b43/pcm5.fw
lib/firmware/b43/a0g1initvals13.fw
lib/firmware/b43/lcn2bsinitvals25.fw
lib/firmware/b43/ucode11.fw
lib/firmware/b43/ucode38_lcn40.fw
lib/firmware/b43/n0initvals22.fw
lib/firmware/b43/lcn1bsinitvals24.fw
lib/firmware/b43/ucode21_sslpn_nobt.fw
lib/firmware/b43/lcn2bsinitvals24.fw
lib/firmware/b43/ucode14.fw
lib/firmware/b43/lcn1bsinitvals26.fw
lib/firmware/b43/n0absinitvals11.fw
lib/firmware/b43/sslpn2initvals19.fw
lib/firmware/b43/n18initvals32.fw
lib/firmware/b43/lcn404bsinitvals33.fw
lib/firmware/b43/ucode21_sslpn.fw
lib/firmware/b43/ucode24_lcn.fw
lib/firmware/b43/ht0initvals29.fw
lib/firmware/b43/a0g1initvals9.fw
lib/firmware/b43/ucode41.fw
lib/firmware/b43/ac3initvals43.fw
lib/firmware/b43/ucode16_lp.fw
lib/firmware/b43/lp1bsinitvals22.fw
lib/firmware/b43/ac0initvals40.fw
lib/firmware/b43/lcn1initvals26.fw
lib/firmware/b43/pcm4.fw
lib/firmware/b43/ucode29_mimo.fw
lib/firmware/b43/n0bsinitvals11.fw
lib/firmware/b43/sslpn1initvals27.fw
lib/firmware/b43/ucode20_sslpn_nobt.fw
lib/firmware/b43/ucode35_lcn40.fw
lib/firmware/b43/n0initvals16.fw
lib/firmware/b43/b0g0bsinitvals13.fw
lib/firmware/b43/b0g0initvals5.fw
lib/firmware/b43/ac1initvals42.fw
lib/firmware/b43/lcn401initvals33.fw
lib/firmware/b43/ucode22_sslpn.fw
lib/firmware/b43/ucode42.fw
lib/firmware/b43/lcn404bsinitvals35.fw
lib/firmware/b43/sslpn0initvals16.fw
lib/firmware/b43/a0g1initvals5.fw
lib/firmware/b43/ucode24_mimo.fw
lib/firmware/b43/a0g1bsinitvals5.fw
lib/firmware/b43/lcn402bsinitvals33.fw
usr/
usr/doc/
usr/doc/b43-firmware-6.30.163.46/
usr/doc/b43-firmware-6.30.163.46/b43-firmware.SlackBuild

Slackware package /tmp/b43-firmware-6.30.163.46-fw-1_SBo.tgz created.

root@slackhost:/b43-firmware# installpkg /tmp/b43-firmware*.t?z
Verifying package b43-firmware-6.30.163.46-fw-1_SBo.tgz.
Installing package b43-firmware-6.30.163.46-fw-1_SBo.tgz:
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION:
# b43-firmware (firmware for b43 chipsets)
#
# Broadcom's wireless chips firmware.
#
# Homepage: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43-firmware
#
Package b43-firmware-6.30.163.46-fw-1_SBo.tgz installed.

but still:

Code:

root@slackhost:/b43-firmware# iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

joshn · 08-14-2016, 02:34 PM

looks like something just needed to be started up after running the last commands

I've now got wlan0 showing in iwconfig

thanks y'all!

let's see what I can get going from here

joshn · 08-14-2016, 03:07 PM

Code:

root@slackhost:~# /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 restart
sending signal ARLM to pid 5503
waiting for pid 5503 to exit
Polling for DHCP server on interface eth0:
DUID 00:01:00:01:1f:29:ca:62:00:1d:09:af:ff:17
eth0: IAID 09:af:ff:17
eth0: soliciting a DHCP lease
eth0: offered 192.168.0.140 from 192.168.0.1
eth0: leased 192.168.0.140 for 86400 seconds
eth0: adding route to 192.168.0.0/24
eth0: adding default route via 192.168.0.1
forked to background, child pid 5831
/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1:  wlan0 information: 'Any ESSID'
Error for wireless request "Set Nickname" (8B1C) :
    SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not supported.
wlan0     no private ioctls.

wlan0     no private ioctls.

wlan0     no private ioctls.

Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant

then it hangs and does nothing

should I be configuring the connection in rc.inet1.conf or in the Connection Editor GUI?

STDOUBT · 08-14-2016, 03:09 PM

Since your system now sees wlan0, I would go for the GUI. Do you use networkmanager or wicd?
What's your GUI?

joshn · 08-14-2016, 03:19 PM

I'm trying to use the KDE Connection editor.

When I add a connection though it never really seems to save it.

All I'm doing is giving it an SSID, setting the security to WPA2 and giving it the key.

nothing happens

STDOUBT · 08-14-2016, 03:35 PM

OK, so what you need to do is "turn on" networkmanager. As root do:

Code:

chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.networkmanager

Then..

Code:

/etc/rc.d/rc.networkmanager start

I just know this is documented somewhere but most people end up getting it here in the forum...
On that topic, everything you ever need to know about setting up Slackware is documented on the install media.

joshn · 08-14-2016, 03:52 PM

I'm happy to report that this reply is happening via a wireless connection...thanks a ton everybody.

STDOUBT wrote:

Quote:

On that topic, everything you ever need to know about setting up Slackware is documented on the install media.

point taken, I tried to follow the documentation as far as I could with SlackBuilds and ended up needing help...after that I got lazy and kept asking questions...I'll try to dig a little harder next time, but you guys were just to bloody helpful!

thanks again everybody