Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2576 mails)

[Mark Misulich <munguanaweza@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 13:03 -0500, Nkoli wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:31 PM, Mark Misulich <munguanaweza@xxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
> > Hi, thanks for the advice. Unfortunately neither of these suggestions
> > worked, the problem remains.
> >
> > Mark
>
> You may have to remove ndiswrapper and co and restart or modprobe b43
> + run 'service network restart'. You'll know the card is working by
> all the broadcom/b43 firmware entries that'll appear under dmesg. If
> your card has a switch, toggle it and dmesg will display a message
> about the card being enabled or disabled.
>
> My laptop's wireless card is the same as yours and I've been using it
> with the opensource driver for about 3 years now. I know the card
> works very well and takes all of two seconds to set up with the
> install_bcm43xx_firmware script.
>
>
> Nkoli

Hi All,
thanks for your replies to this thread.  I had to go on a business trip
for a few days and didn't have access to the stuff I needed to work on
this in depth, hence the delay in replying.  I tried the suggestion
given above, and it didn't work to get the wireless working.  

What I suspected was that since I was using the same home partition on
the hard drive for 10.3 as I was attempting to use for the 11.1
installation, that it was causing the problem somehow.  It seemed like
the card was working, but somehow the configuration software was messing
up and the card wouldn't communicate properly with the Operating system.
I had previously tried to install 11.1 64 bit system using the 10.3 home
partition for home for 11.1 and had a similar problem with the
wireless.  

I reduced Vista's size on the hard drive this morning and created some
free space.  I then enlarged the extended partition housing Suse enough
to create two more logical partitions, to be used for 11.1 root and
home. I installed the 11.1 32 bit system, and installed the wireless b43
driver.  The wireless began to work as soon as I configured the card in
yast.

I don't know why this is causing the problem, but doing all this has
allowed the wireless to work.

Does anyone know if the b43 wireless method using the opensource driver
works for 64 bit too?

Mark

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