Changes between Version 51 and Version 52 of Old/WiMAX/30

Timestamp:

Aug 16, 2013, 1:05:29 AM (11 years ago)

Author:

davide

Comment:

Updated Beceem driver installation procedure for Ubuntu 12.04

Old/WiMAX/30

@@ -378 +378 @@
 == 12.4 Installing the Beceem Driver for Linux-Airspan BS Compatibility ==
 
-Commands to be run as the root user have the '#' prompt, commands to be run as a normal user have the '$' prompt.
+Commands to be run as the root user have the `#` prompt, commands to be run as a normal user have the `$` prompt.
 
 === 1. Install Linux ===
@@ -388 +388 @@
 }}}
 
-This method was complete successfully on Ubuntu 11.10.
+The following steps were completed successfully on Ubuntu 11.10 and Ubuntu 12.04.
 
 === 2. Resources ===
@@ -394 +394 @@
 A WiMAX dongle with a Beceem chipset is required to use the driver to connect to a WiMAX network. An AWB US211 USB adapter was used when testing the netbook configured using this guide, although any dongle with a Beceem chipset should work.
 
-Files in the following tarball are required to install the driver: http://wimax.orbit-lab.org/downloads/BeceemSource.tar.gz . The tarball is quite large (100s of MB) and may take a few minutes or more to download. 
+Files in the following tarball are required to install the driver: http://wimax.orbit-lab.org/downloads/BeceemSource.tar.gz . The tarball is quite large (~150 MB) and may take a few minutes or more to download. 
 
 It will be assumed that these files were downloaded to the ~/Downloads/ directory for the remainder of the guide. Extract the files:
@@ -403 +403 @@
 }}}
 
-The following packages should be installed using apt-get:
-
-{{{
-# apt-get install libglobus-openssl libglobus-openssl-dev libssl-dev  #Required to install libeap library
-# apt-get install linux-source linux-headers-$(uname -r) openssl unzip patch  #Required to install driver
+The following packages must be installed via apt-get:
+
+{{{
+# apt-get install libssl-dev linux-headers-$(uname -r) linux-source make patch unzip
 }}}
 
@@ -421 +420 @@
 $ make -C src/eap_peer
 # make -C src/eap_peer install
-# ldconfig
 }}}
 
@@ -431 +429 @@
 
 {{{
-$ cd /usr/src
-$ tar -xjvf linux-source-X.X.X.tar.bz2  #Where the kernel version number takes the place of X.X.X
-$ cd linux-source-X.X.X
-# make oldconfig
-# make prepare
-# make modules_prepare
-$ ln -s linux-sources-X.X.X linux
+# cd /usr/src
+# tar -xjf linux-source-X.Y.Z.tar.bz2  # where the kernel version number takes the place of X.Y.Z
+# ln -s linux-sources-X.Y.Z linux
 }}}
 
@@ -448 +442 @@
 {{{
 $ cd ~/Downloads/BeceemSource/
-$ tar -xzvf Sprint4GDeveloperPack-1.6.1.2.2.tar.gz
+$ tar -xzf Sprint4GDeveloperPack-1.6.1.2.2.tar.gz
 $ cd Sprint4GDeveloperPack-1.6.1.2.2
 # ./install.sh
 }}}
 
-The installer will prompt for various file paths, if the symlink was created in the last step then the default options should be correct.
+The installer will prompt for various file paths, if the symlink was created in the previous step then the default choices should be correct.
 
 After the install finishes run the following commands to add the new driver to the startup modules, and verify success:
 
 {{{
-# insmod drxvi314.ko
-# dmesg -c
-}}}
-
-The dmesg command should output a line that includes "Initialized usbbcm" upon a successful kernel install.
-
-
-On some recent kernels, you will need to blacklist the {{{bcm_wimax}}} driver to prevent it from claiming the device. Run
-
-{{{
-echo "blacklist bcm_wimax" > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-bcm-wimax.conf
+# modprobe drxvi314
+# dmesg | grep usbbcm
+}}}
+
+The last command should output a line that includes "Initialised usbbcm" upon a successful kernel install.
+
+On some recent kernels, you will need to blacklist the `bcm_wimax` driver to prevent it from claiming the device. Run
+
+{{{
+# echo "blacklist bcm_wimax" > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-bcm-wimax.conf
 }}}