Meego 1.1 Wifi

 

Overview

UPDATE: This guide has been updated from the MeeGo 1.0 WiFi page for the upcoming MeeGo 1.1 release. This guide was written using one of the final pre-release images.


What you’ll need

Unfortunately, as with most situations like this, you’ll need a wired connection active in order to download the appropriate files.

Please visit the Broadcom site to read the details on the license of this driver

http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php


These steps can be used to create the binary rpm yourself. You need to actually install MeeGo 1.1. These steps won’t work while booting off the live image.


  1. 1)Activate the MeeGo toolbar and select the applications icon

  2. 2)Choose the Accessories section and select Terminal (or type terminal in the search box)

  3. 3)Install the various tools you’ll need

    sudo zypper install rpmdevtools

  1. 4)Install the compilers and other tools,

    sudo zypper install pattern:development-tools

  1. 5)Install the kernel-netbook-devel package.

    sudo zypper install kernel-netbook-devel

  1. 6)Now we’re ready to build and install the new broadcom drivers, my moblin srpm works

    wget http://slaine.org/meego/releases/1.1/ia32/source/wl-kmod-5.100.82.38-1.src.rpm

    (This build will download the broadcom driver archive directly from their site)

    rpmbuild --rebuild --target=i586 wl-kmod-5.100.82.38-1.src.rpm

  1. 7)Install the resulting rpm,

    sudo rpm -ivh ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/i586/wl-kmod-5.100.82.38-1.src.rpm

  1. 8)Loading the module,

   sudo modprobe -a wl

  1. 9)You should be able to now connect to a network.