Can any gurus help with driver installation

englishpremier · 25 Feb 2012 at 17:04

For a Broadcom Crystal HD card in a netbook running linux mint 11.
Broadcom offers source code at: http://www.broadcom.com/support/crystal_hd/

That comes in a .zip file. Once extracted there is a bzip2 file inside. What do i do with this? It's not an archive as when i try to open it in archive manager is displays

Code:

bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file.
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

All other information about installing refers to drivers at: http://git.wilsonet.com/crystalhd.git/

This page no longer exists it throws up a 404 error in the browser and git times out when run from the terminal.

Any thoughts?

masterluke · 25 Feb 2012 at 18:11

I think mint can use ubuntu repo's right?

You could try using this one..

https://launchpad.net/~mario-sitz/+archive/ppa

.. there is a crystalhd package there

tntcoder · 25 Feb 2012 at 18:21

You can extract the tbz2 file with: tar zxf crystalhd_07032010.tbz2 then follow the readme file in the zip

englishpremier · 26 Feb 2012 at 09:22

Thanks.

I actually found a bunch of debian packages one being the kernel driver, one a shared library, and one some development files.

I've installed these and added cyrstalhd to /etc/modules

Just not sure how check/test the drivers now.

englishpremier · 26 Feb 2012 at 13:10

Removed the debs i installed, they didn't seem to work.

Been following the braodcom readme after extracting the archive the way TNTCoder stated.

Code:

$ make
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.38-8-generic/build SUBDIRS=/home/carl/07032010/driver/linux modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.38-8-generic'
  CC [M]  /home/carl/07032010/driver/linux/crystalhd_lnx.o
/home/carl/07032010/driver/linux/crystalhd_lnx.c:356:2: error: unknown field ‘ioctl’ specified in initializer
cc1: warnings being treated as errors
/home/carl/07032010/driver/linux/crystalhd_lnx.c:356:2: error: initialization from incompatible pointer type
make[2]: *** [/home/carl/07032010/driver/linux/crystalhd_lnx.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/carl/07032010/driver/linux] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.38-8-generic'
make: *** [all] Error 2