On Wednesday 10 September 2008 00:33:00 Fred A. Miller wrote:
Bob, I have a dislike for Broadcom simply because they won't play nice with the community. You can buy an Intel Pro. 100 mini with the 3945 chipset for not that much $. I have a Dell 1525 with it.....NO problems getting access. You also should use the 64-bit version of openSUSE 11.0 as it's simply performs much better. I have 2G of RAM on it. GREAT little SATA laptop.
Fred
Thanks Fred, I agree about the GREAT little SATA laptop, and can report success in getting the wireless networking running. BTW I am using 64bit openSUSE 11.0 with KDE 3.5.9 desktop, which is my current favourite configuration. Anyway, the solution to getting the Broadcom to play ball (it is actually a BCM4310 chipset) is to download the Broadcom hybrid driver from http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php Choose either the 32bit or 64bit driver, depending on your architecture and also download the README.txt file, which contains the instructions for building the driver. It's very clear, even for this simpleton ;) but you will need to know which kernel your running. uname -r is your friend here. When you've completed all the steps in the README.txt, the wireless indicator light should come on. You then need to go to YaST > Network Devices > Network Settings to configure the card with your router/AP. Under the Hardware tab, enter 'wl.ko' as the driver. Good luck (not to you Fred, 'cos you're using a sensible wireless card) Bob -- Bob Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.0, Kernel 2.6.25.11-0.1-default, KDE 4.1.1 Intel Celeron 2.53GB, 2GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 7600GS -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org