On Wednesday 19 December 2007 11:25:00 M Harris wrote:
I have installed openSUSE 10.0 on an HP nx98500--- mostly working great with the exception of keyboard (see off-topic list) and the broadcom wifi chipset no working. I have heard that openSUSE 10.3 has the appropriate kernel and broadcom drivers (BCM43xx) for the HP nx9500. Could someone confirm. I had a Compaq Presario F500 laptop with broadcom wireless network card. OpenSUSE 10.3 has 2.6.22 kernel which has modules for broadcom nwtwork cards. You also need the proper firmware for the nic. I run bcmxx_fimware_cutter which extracts the broadcom firmware for cards. All you have to do is intall bcmxx_fimware_cutter package with yast and run "bcmxx_firmware_cutter" as root from cli. After the firmware installed you can configure broadcom nic via YAST. It worked for me. Also, I would like to purchase the boxed set of 10.3 (if that is still an option) --is this only available on-line these days? It has been a long time since I have seen the boxed set on BestBuy, etc. Just have a look around. Is 10.4 around the corner soon? Next realease is 11.0. There will be no 10.4 release as far as I know. -- Gökşin Akdeniz
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