On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote:

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote:

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Still more searching - everything is not as it seems.

Per lspci -nn I have a Broadcom BCM4312 [14e4:4315]

The 4315 variant is not supported by the b43 module.

But a very new kernel module (wl.ko) does support it as well as most of what the b43 module supports.

It is available directly from Broadcom: http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php

But it comes in a hybrid form.

I can't find it prepacked (compiled) for OpenSUSE 11.1. I have not even found a HowTo yet.

Does this exist?

If not, I'll download the "hybrid" and use the generic readme.

Thanks Greg

This is unbelievably painful.

I found instructions at: http://en.opensuse.org/HCL/Network_Adapters_(Wireless)/Broadcom_BCM43xx#Broa...

I have followed them but it still did not work:

1) I installed broadcom-wl from packman (brand new release is available)

2) I rebooted to the normal kernel -- no joy

3) I had noticed that during the broadcom-wl install it had installed a debug kernel and that was added to my grub menu. I booted it up. JOY, JOY, JOY

I updated the opensuse wiki to reflect the above. And I added a couple of references to the bc4312. http://en.opensuse.org/HCL/Network_Adapters_(Wireless)/Broadcom_BCM43xx This is my first experience with linux and wireless, so if one of you experts feel I messed up the wiki entry, please fix it. I also updated the HCL for broadcom. Same comment applies. http://en.opensuse.org/HCL/Network_Adapters_(Wireless)#Chipsets Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Scott Jones wrote:

On Friday 30 January 2009, Greg Freemyer wrote:

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I updated the opensuse wiki to reflect the above. And I added a couple of references to the bc4312.

http://en.opensuse.org/HCL/Network_Adapters_(Wireless)/Broadcom_BCM43xx

This is my first experience with linux and wireless, so if one of you experts feel I messed up the wiki entry, please fix it.

Changed it. Packman has had broadcom kmp packages available for all the kernel flavors, not just the debug kernel, since they started packaging it.

Okay, from my normal desktop pc (no wireless) via yast I just clicked broadcom-wl from the broadcom choices. It auto checked only the debug kernel. When I installed on the laptop, I did not notice that it auto selected only the debug kernel, thus my confusion. I'm going to edit the wiki entry to note that issue.

Additionally, the broadcom-wl package simply provides the module blacklist necessary for wl.ko to work. It does not require the debug kernel, but it does have broadcom-wl-kmp as a dependency, which can be fulfilled by any of the broadcom-wl-kmp-* packages.

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