kernel-3.15 and broadcom wl kmod

Jacek Pawlyta jpawlyta at wp.pl
Tue Apr 22 17:16:54 CEST 2014


Dear All,

akmod-wl no longer works for kernel 3.15 branch. I have found the
solution here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2216779&page=2

please add following patch to the package:

diff -Naur
hybrid-v35_64-nodebug-pcoem-6_30_223_141.orig/src/wl/sys/wl_cfg80211_hybrid.c
hybrid-v35_64-nodebug-pcoem-6_30_223_141/src/wl/sys/wl_cfg80211_hybrid.c
---
hybrid-v35_64-nodebug-pcoem-6_30_223_141.orig/src/wl/sys/wl_cfg80211_hybrid.c   
2013-08-01 08:52:22.000000000 +0200
+++
hybrid-v35_64-nodebug-pcoem-6_30_223_141/src/wl/sys/wl_cfg80211_hybrid_new.c   
2014-04-22 12:55:36.309328258 +0200
@@ -1841,7 +1841,11 @@
             wl_get_assoc_ies(wl);
             memcpy(&wl->bssid, &e->addr, ETHER_ADDR_LEN);
             wl_update_bss_info(wl);
-            cfg80211_ibss_joined(ndev, (u8 *)&wl->bssid, GFP_KERNEL);
+            #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(3, 15, 0)
+                cfg80211_ibss_joined(ndev, (u8 *)&wl->bssid,
&wl->conf->channel, GFP_KERNEL);
+            #else
+                cfg80211_ibss_joined(ndev, (u8 *)&wl->bssid, GFP_KERNEL);
+            #endif
             set_bit(WL_STATUS_CONNECTED, &wl->status);
             wl->profile->active = true;
         }


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