Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1728 mails)

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On Sunday 08 August 2010 09:37:33 am Vojtěch Zeisek wrote:
> Hello,
> I have this Dell Vostro 1220
> http://www.smolts.org/show?uuid=pub_b5e8a9b3-2a44-4453-8207-40f1ccc582b9
> and I faced several troubles when installing new openSUSE. It has wi-fi
> card from Broadcom (driver b43). After installation system does not show
> any hardware problem with wi-fi, but it does not work. When I go to YaST, I
> see that driver ssb is loaded for Broadcom wi-fi card and everything seems
> OK, but it does not work. In dmesg I see I have to run as root
> nstall_bcm43xx_firmware. After it the wi-fi starts to work.
> Well, after installation, I
> d expect two variants: 1) the firmware is automatically downloaded and used
> (similar to  Ubuntu) OR 2) system tells me something is wrong and driver is
> missing. But now I!m faced to state, when it looks like it is working, but
> it is not. And it is wrong. Does anyone has same experience? Is it for bug
> report or feature request?
> Second think is I faced problems when connecting to home wi-fi (it uses
> WPA2 key, but I tried it also with open wi-fi) - it tries to connect, but
> it fails. There is nothing strange in logs, only that "authentication timed
> out"... On Acer with similar Broadcom wi-fi and Ubuntu it works fine. But I
> can access school network, so I!m not sure where is the problem... Any
> idea?
> Best regards!

don't know which suse you got, but my 64bit 11.1/kde3 had constant problems 
with knetworkmanager in a vostro 1710. solved 99.9% of them by switching to 
ifup/ifdown and installing wicd.  sometimes it takes a bit of a delay to make 
a new connection (especially if the laptop wakes up from a suspend), but it 
always works:) The only real downside is that wicd does not really hide the 
various passwords, if one clicks on the entry the dots go away and the pword 
is shown!!!!!
d.
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