Moblin HP Mini 1035nr Wireless Drivers
For those with an HP Mini 1035nr, you have a Broadcom chip, and because Moblin was started by Intel staff, it appears support for that chip is non-existent.
But! Never fear! Apparently the Dell Mini 9 also uses this chipset, and luckily this kind person (who apparently also has a Mac) has placed instructions for how to install the wireless drivers for his Mini 9 on his website.
Just follow them closely and you’ll be all set!
[Updated Nov 15 to include the new links on slaine.org’s tutorial]
In case his site ever goes down, I have a copy of them here…
1) Activate the moblin toolbar and select the applications icon
2) Choose the Accessories section and select Terminal
3) Install the various tools you’ll need
sudo yum install rpmdevtools
4) Install the compilers and other tools,
sudo yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
5) Install the kernel-netbook-devel package.
sudo yum install kernel-netbook-devel
6) Now we’re ready to build and install the new broadcom drivers
wget http://slaine.org/files/moblinv2/wl-kmod-5.10.91.9.3-1.moblin.src.rpm
(This build will download the broadcom driver archive directly from their site)
rpmbuild –rebuild –target=i586 wl-kmod-5.10.91.9.3-1.moblin.src.rpm
7) Install the resulting rpm,
sudo rpm -ivh ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/i586/wl-kmod-5.10.91.9.3-1.moblin.src.rpm
Thanks for helping with this, to avoid pluggin in, i’m going to try putting worldcom thing on a usb stick and do it that way
sudo rpmbuild –rebuild wl-kmod-5.10.91.9-3.moblin.1.src.rpm –target=i586
Installing wl-kmod-5.10.91.9-3.moblin.1.src.rpm
warning: user glen does not exist – using root
warning: group glen does not exist – using root
warning: user glen does not exist – using root
warning: group glen does not exist – using root
warning: user glen does not exist – using root
warning: group glen does not exist – using root
warning: user glen does not exist – using root
warning: group glen does not exist – using root
warning: user glen does not exist – using root
warning: group glen does not exist – using root
Building target platforms: i586
Building for target i586
Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.DrVPPZ
+ umask 022
+ cd /home/kudelabs/rpmbuild/BUILD
+ LANG=C
+ export LANG
+ unset DISPLAY
+ cd /home/kudelabs/rpmbuild/SOURCES
++ basename http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/hybrid-portsrc-x86_32-v5_10_91_9.tar.gz
+ file1=hybrid-portsrc-x86_32-v5_10_91_9.tar.gz
+ ‘[‘ ‘!’ -f hybrid-portsrc-x86_32-v5_10_91_9.tar.gz ‘]’
+ wget –timeout=5 http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/hybrid-portsrc-x86_32-v5_10_91_9.tar.gz
–2009-11-03 19:30:49– http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/hybrid-portsrc-x86_32-v5_10_91_9.tar.gz
Resolving http://www.broadcom.com... 208.70.88.55
Connecting to http://www.broadcom.com|208.70.88.55|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 404 Not Found
2009-11-03 19:30:50 ERROR 404: Not Found.
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.DrVPPZ (%prep)
RPM build errors:
user glen does not exist – using root
group glen does not exist – using root
user glen does not exist – using root
group glen does not exist – using root
user glen does not exist – using root
group glen does not exist – using root
user glen does not exist – using root
group glen does not exist – using root
user glen does not exist – using root
group glen does not exist – using root
Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.DrVPPZ (%prep)
Looks like the broadcom file link is down:
–2009-11-03 19:30:49– http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/hybrid-portsrc-x86_32-v5_10_91_9.tar.gz
Resolving http://www.broadcom.com… 208.70.88.55
Connecting to http://www.broadcom.com|208.70.88.55|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 404 Not Found
2009-11-03 19:30:50 ERROR 404: Not Found.
:( Could be a new version – I’ll take a look into it tomorrow.
The driver have been updated:
new link:
http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/hybrid-portsrc-x86_32-v5.10.91.9.3.tar.gz
or the download page:
http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php
Thanks Razouille!
What is to be done with this updated driver? It can’t be used in the rpmbuild process.. So what changes to make it work?
The build script needs to be updated and I don’t have any control over that – I’ll try to get a hold of the author to see if it can be updated.
I’ve updated the links to match those used on the source’s website, though I’m not positive if it will solve that problem or not. Please comment here to let me know – if it does not I’ll forward your results along to the author (who is available at or on the #moblin irc channel most weekdays according to his blog).
Still not working for me. Though it is a different issue i think. The command ‘ sudo yum groupinstall “Development Tools” ‘ says “No packages in any requested group available to install or update”.
If I continue with the rest, I get “error: failed to stat /home/user/–rebuild: No such file or directory” when using the command ‘ rpmbuild –rebuild –target=i586 wl-kmod-5.10.91.9.3-1.moblin.src.rpm ‘ .
I am using Moblin 2.1 on a Vostro A90
Don’t copy and paste the Development Tools command, it seems that the quotes aren’t correct, type it yourself.
HTH.
thanks Arkay!!! now, i can use wifi on my Dell mini 9 wtih Moblin.
I’m sure this works, but the Hp mini I have is the 1010nr which does not have an ethernet port, only a wireless adapter. So this method does not work for me. Any suggestions?
I’m getting the “glen” error when I try to do this now.
I sent slaine a PM on the #moblin channel, but no reply as of yet.
Was wondering if you could tweet him for me as I don’t have twitter.
Thanks.