[solved] slapt-src fails to fetch source for broadcom-sta

[joeham]

I am trying to use the slapt-src tool to automatically install the broadcom-sta (aka wl) module from source.

I become root and invoke slapt-src -i broadcom-sta and get the following:

blah...blah
Fetching http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/ ... z...Failed

This is because the tar.gz has moved and is a newer version.

The question is can the slapt-src tool be pointed to the new source?

if it can't be pointed to the new source, where is the build directory at, so I can add it manually?

Should I just give up and run the slack build manually (I did it that way the last time I installed it for 13.0)

Who maintains the slapt-src tool?

I know this is not a Salix tool but its just so promising I hate to give up without asking a few questions

[gapan]

That seems like a problem with the original SlackBuild and that's where it should be addressed. So the best thing to do would be to contact that specific SlackBuild's creator so that he could update it. Slapt-src only uses the existing SlackBuilds. If the SlackBuilds fail, that's not slapt-src's fault, it's the SlackBuild's fault, so there's nothing to tweak in slapt-src to fix it. The source files are downloaded by slapt-src in directories under /usr/src/slapt-src, so you could go in there, download the source and run the SlackBuild manually. That would be the fastest way to make it work.