https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=716623 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=716623#c0 Summary: Certain Broadcom wireless cards do not work under ifup Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 12.1 Version: Milestone 5 Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: SuSE Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Network AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: newsboy@scarlet-jade.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- Created an attachment (id=449771) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=449771) This is an edited listing of the results from command "/usr/sbin/iwlist scan" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:6.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0 Broadcom devices BCM4306 and BCM4318 do not work when configured with ifup but do work using Network Manager. I made clean installs of M5 on two machines and was unable to get my usual settings to work under ifup. In the Yast set-up, I was able to find my router successfully but, after configuration, the Ping command returned "network is unreachable." I then decided to try a clean install of M2 and update to M5 from there. On both machines, connection was got working on M2 but failed once I'd updated to M5. On one machine, the only link I have is through a wireless connection, there is no wired link. I installed M2 and successfully configured wireless with ifup and then installed updates from the factory-tested OSS and non-OSS repos. These updates were all downloaded via the wireless connection. I then rebooted and GRUB menu showed it was now M5. After this reboot, wireless had stopped working. The original settings are OK for 12.1 M2, 11.4 and numerous previous releases of openSUSE but not 12.1 M5. I then set up Network Manager and got it to work using DHCP to control IP address and also by using a fixed IP address. The configuration I'd been using for ifup was fixed IP address but then tried using DHCP but was still unsuccessful. I followed a suggestion to change the connection of "on boot" to "on cable connection" but this made no difference. Contents of /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan0 were identical for 11.4 and 12.1 M5 apart from WIRELESS_POWER being "yes" in 11.4 and "no" in M5. Changing this parameter made no difference. I've tried both 64- and 32-bit versions of 12.1 M5 with the same result. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. I am using KDE 4.7.0 on both 11.4 and 12.1 M5. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.