Hi folks, On the road with my rusty old laptop. Dell Inspiron 1300 -- think Celeron M 1600MHz, 512MB of ram shared with the video controller, etc. -- got it second-hand from a Glaswegian some years ago. The internal WiFi works absolutely fine on WinXP, but won't work on openSUSE 12.1. The light doesn't come on, and it shows in KDE's NetworkManager applet as: WLAN-Interface Not available ...and there's no way of getting it to work. I press fn+f2, nothing happens. All other fn+... combinations do work, e.g., for screen brightness and volume control, so the keyboard seems fine. In the BIOS I found an option to control the wireless on/off by "fn+f2 only" or "software and fn+f2", so I selected the latter, but still no luck. More diagnostic output below; NetworkManager seems to detect the device all right, and it found a driver for it, but the thing just won't come to life. (No luck with ifup through YaST either.) Searching around the internet points me to ndiswrapper, but is that necessary given that NetworkManager seems to have identified the device correctly and found a driver for it? Any ideas? Haro ---------- The detailed view in NetworkManager says: Type: Wireless 802.11 Connection status: unavailable IP address: no IP address Connection speed: unknown System name: wlan0 MAC address: 00:16:...........(blabla) Driver: b43 ---------- Console output from lspci: ... 02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02) ... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org