On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:21:01 lynn wrote:
On Wednesday 16 December 2009 11:42:37 Martin Jungowski wrote:
What it doesn't do is work on laptops. It looks from below that
PCLinuxOS is the only one that does. L x
Take my Dell Vostro 1400 for example - while my wifi card was recognized out of the box it didn't work. I had to run /usr/sbin/install_bcm43_firmware first, a skript which a Windows driver, extracts the firmware, loads the proper wrappers and modules, and voila: wireless worked. Martin
Exactly. It didn't work. You had to run /usr/sbin/install_bcm43_firmware first. How could anyone know about that without hours of searching? Did openSUSE tell you to do that or did you have to look it up yourself? How did you know to do that?
Despite what I can read here and it has been very informative (I thank you all) opensuse is not ready for the laptop market. It may work, but that's not good enough. L x
Having previously used Mandriva before moving to openSuse 10.3, I had already been through the firmware stuff and had it sitting on my HDD. When I installed 10.3, it wanted to enable the wireless network to find updates and add additional repositories. During the *install*, I switched to a text console, copied the firmware files into /lib/firmware and then switched back to the installer and let it continue. It enabled the wifi and I had full connectivity during the remainder of the install process. That was with 10.3 and I had *never* had wifi work without much more manual intervention up until then. I've not had a problem with it since, with either the Intel wireless chipset in my work laptop or the Broadcom/Linksys pc card in my home laptop. -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au =================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org