Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3622 mails)

[Adam Jimerson <vendion@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well these wireless problem threads seem to be popular here so I'll go ahead 
and add another one, like everyone here is not sick of them yet, anyways I 
have a BCM94311MCG wireless card on my laptop, and have the driver wrapped 
with ndiswrapper but everything is not working right.  Everytime I restart my 
system I still have no wireless and if I open up YaST2 Network settings it 
says that the module ndiswrapper has not been modprobed, I did this after I 
installed the driver, and just to be safe I have been telling it that I want 
it to modprobe it.  After that my card gets labed as this:

BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (Not connected)

Also when I do ndiswrapper -l this is what it prints out:

bcmwl5 : driver installed
        device (14E4:4311) present (alternate driver: ssb)

That is the correct driver I used it under SUSE 10.2 and 10.3 and they worked 
just fine, but I have never seen it use ssb as an alternate driver.  The 
first thing that came to mind is blacklist it but I don't know if that will 
help and I don't know how to blacklist a module (never had to do this in my 3 
years of running Linux).

Any Clues, Pointers, Advice, solutions, comments... anything?

Thanks in advance
-- 
"We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason 
than only freedom can make security more secure."  Karl Popper