[SOLVED] Building a network driver -- what tools/libraries to download?

[m2lmb]

Hello,

After installing F-15 64 bit on a Live USB stick, what do I need to download to be able to build the sources from http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php? Although the USB stick is small, there is room on the laptop's harddrive.

Thanks,

[stevea]

All the tools you need are in this:
yum -y groupinstall "Development Tools"

You also need the kernel headers & makefiles
yum -y install kernel-devel kernel-headers


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BTW - instead of the entire "Development Tools" group you can probably just get the
gcc, make packages.

[m2lmb]

Thanks -- the following

yum --installroot=/media/OS/home/f14 install kernel-headers kernel-devel
yum --installroot=/media/OS/home/f14 install gcc

worked, but there's one loose end -- the module that provided ld ended up creating the following:

      cd  /media/OS/home/f14/usr/bin
      ls -laF  ld
      ld -> /etc/alternatives/ld
      
      cd  /media/OS/home/f14/etc/alternatives
      ls -laF ld*
      ld -> /usr/bin/ld.bfd

The above is strange since the use of absolute paths in the links means that there will be issues when the modules are installed in a non-default location (as is being done in the installation under discussion)!

Workaround: Modify the soft-links to use relative paths:

      cd  /media/OS/home/f14/etc/alternatives
      ln -s ../../usr/bin/ld.bfd  ld
      ln -s ../../usr/bin/ld.bfd  ld.bfd
  
      cd  /media/OS/home/f14/usr/bin
      # Should have used a relative path in the next command
      # Even better, could have just done: ln -s ld.bfd ld
      ln -s /media/OS/home/f14/etc/alternatives/ld ld

Question: Why doesn't the module that provides ld use relative paths in the soft links -- thereby allowing that module to be easily installed in a non-standard location?

[m2lmb]

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Need to use the correct version for the kernel build tools -- `uname -r` of machine on which build and deployment will occur (same machine):

1, 2) yum --installroot=`pwd`/foo -y -v install kernel-{headers,devel}-`uname -r`

3) yum --installroot=`pwd`/foo -y -v install gcc


Finally, closing this thread (marking it as SOLVED) after filing a bug-report on broken installation of ld https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=682396

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