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Re: kernel versus broadcom wlan

From: Celejar <celejar(at)gmail.com>
Date: Fri Feb 01 2008 - 13:57:24 EST

On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:58:32 -0700
"wauhugo@yahoo.com" <wauhugo@yahoo.com> wrote:

[snip]

> According to this post
> https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/bcm43xx-dev/2008-January/006622.html
> did I fetch the patch from
> http://linuxwireless.org/download/b43/patch_2.6.24_for_4311_2
> and copied the file to /usr/src/

[snip]

> The installation runs finally into this error:
> [...]
> Setting up linux-image-2.6.24-b43 (2.6.24-b43-10.00.Custom) ...
> Running depmod.
> Finding valid ramdisk creators.
> Using mkinitrd.yaird to build the ramdisk.
> yaird error: unrecognised device: /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00
> yaird error: unrecognised device: /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00
> yaird error: unrecognised device:
> /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A03:00
> yaird error: unrecognised device:
> /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A03:00/LNXVIDEO:00
> yaird error: unrecognised device: /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00
> yaird error: unrecognised device: /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00
> yaird error: unrecognised device:
> /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A03:00
> yaird error: unrecognised device:
> /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A03:00/device:26
> yaird error: unrecognised device:
> /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A03:00/device:26/LNXVIDEO:01
> yaird error: there were errors in this run, aborting now without output
> (fatal)
> mkinitrd.yaird failed to create initrd image.
> Failed to create initrd image.
> dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.24-b43 (--install):
> [...]
>
> What can I do, to bypass this error during installation on the debian
> sid system?

Have you ever built kernels using kernel-package before? Have you ever see that error? What happens if you try to build the kernel with kernel-package without the b43 patch, or using the vanilla kernel building tools with the b43 patch? Florian's suggestion about switching to another initrd creator is also worth trying.

> Hugo

Celejar

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