On 12/19/2009 02:54 AM, kanenas@hawaii.rr.com pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
On Friday 18 December 2009 06:49:27 pm Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:
On 12/18/2009 09:33 PM, Fr David Ousley pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
The actual module name is wl _not_ broadcom-wl. I just loaded this same software for my BCM4321, which the driver identifies as a BCM4328 and now I am able to use the on-board wireless.
modprobe wl likewise gives FATAL: ... not found
When you go into Yast > Network devices > network settings and edit BCM4312 (mine is 4312 and not 4321), on the hardware tab, do you have wl in the drop-down? I did when it worked, but no longer. Thanks
Yes i do. You did install broadcom-wl from packman didn't you. You'll need to also install the kmp version that matches your kernel flavor.
-- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998
my dell vostro still runs 11.1, 64 bit, but this should work for you as well. i had a whole bunch of on /off problems with the drivers from packmanand knetworkmanager and the fw-cutter shtuff that suse installs. until a kernel comes with built in support, i will use what seems to always work for me now, which goes as follows: 1. using yast, remove everything related to bcm. don't forget something like fw-cutter or fw43-cutter don't quite remember exactly. just search for bcm 2. install ndiswrapper. 3. if you still have the windoze partition, copy the .inf files for the broadcom to some place in your linucs partition. if not, google for the windoze xp driver and get it and expand it. 4. install the driver with ndiswrapper. (just a minimum of rtfm:))if you get error messages about files not found, copy the additional files from your doze partition. 5. open up yast, you should see the wireless card now, configure it and don't forget to put "ndiswrapper" in the driver entry. finish up network config and click on "conventional" mode , *NOT* managed by (k)network manager. 6. find and install wicd. 7. run wicd. 8. you now have wireless. You also have a major security problem, as wicd seems tio be incapable of encrypting the access pwd, and, anyone using your laptop can go to the wicd setup screen and see the pword in plain text. since i don't give my lasptop to others and since the pwords are not stored between sessions, i don't worry about it, until they fix it. yea, wicd is *not* kde anything, but it gave me peace of mind since i installed it. my wireless connections now are / seem more reliable than windoze wireless connections!!!!
You do realize that you only need to *reply* *to* *the* *list*. Why are people unable to understand this! I and everyone else on this list don't need two copies of your replies. -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org