broadcom-wl

After getting pissed by broadcom providing unfinished drivers and modules, I decided to finish their job.

Project Notes:

1. 26/7/16 : Initial Workaround
2. 27/7/16 : Sorted/Figured out which headers are used by whom.

• src/common - used by BCM4311-, BCM4312-, BCM4313-, BCM4321-, BCM4322-, BCM43224-, and BCM43225-, BCM43227- and BCM43228
• src/shared - still not sure, but overall everyone uses some of the headers there.
• src/include - as far as I am concerned, BCM4312 specifically uses this.

3. 29/7/16 : Pulled the structs to a single file and implemented new names for the structs, Updated README.md
4. 30/8/16 : Fix Broadcom blunder, they used eth instead of wlan for their "wireless driver"
5. 2/8/16 : After seeing and comparing their code switched to an earlier source

• changed from 6.30.223.271 to 6.30.223.141
• fixed cfg80211: on compiling, it gave E: Too Few Arguments
  • since it was an older code, new linux headers weren't included
  • to be specific, headers from linux 3.15.x were missing
  • added conditional functions to map with the different function definitions

6. 4/8/16 : wl_linux: Added Monitor mode support. it does go to monitor mode

• need testing on this one, and can still be marked under WIP
• since our focus is to fix the driver from dropping connections randomly, I shall not concentrate on this feature for now

7. 6/8/16 : Update sources, pushed commits, update readme

• side note:

  Use only 802.11b for better results for now, idk why but "b" is not dropping connections, I had a solid 12 hours of continuous idle connection and it didn't drop. 
  

8. 7/8/16 : Update All Sources from 6.30.223.141 to 6.30.223.271

• Updated each and every file with changes that were done previously.
• Adapted new naming from wl to reacted_wl
• Updated README.md

As of now, Current Sources and my sources are parallel and work properly. 802.11 b/g/n all of them working properly. I personally use 802.11g and I do not face any problems (mostly).

Installation

Use following commands to build (Will provide a build script for relatively new users once it is complete)

NOTE: Execute all as root

• cd /path/to/hybrid-wl/folder
• make
• make install
• modprobe -r bcma
• echo "blacklist bcma" > /etc/modprobe.d/broadcom.conf
• echo "reacted_wl" > /etc/modules-load.d/wl.conf
• depmod -a
• modprobe reacted_wl

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Sources:

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