On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 00:09 -0900, John Andersen wrote:
On Wednesday 14 February 2007, Art Fore wrote:
I have a Dell D820 with a built-in wireless which is a broadcom. With Suse 10.1, I had to use the ndiswrapper, but with Suse 10.2, the broadcom had been added to the kernel, ipw3945.
I've never gotten the kernel one to work. I think it is obsolete for what dell is shipping today. They seem to switch chipsets weekly.
I have to use ndiswrapper on my dell 9400.
I ran hwinfo --wlan and the result is: 12: PCI 202.0: 0200 Ethernet controller [Created at pci.286] UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_14e4_4320 Unique ID: rBUF._LuIAhxm4a3 Parent ID: qscc.S+4MMSCCLf5 SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.4/0000:02:02.0 SysFS BusID: 0000:02:02.0 Hardware Class: network Model: "Hewlett-Packard Company nx9500 Built-in Wireless" Vendor: pci 0x14e4 "Broadcom" Device: pci 0x4320 "BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller" SubVendor: pci 0x103c "Hewlett-Packard Company" SubDevice: pci 0x12f4 "nx9500 Built-in Wireless" Revision: 0x03 Driver: "bcm43xx" Driver Modules: "bcm43xx" Device File: eth0 Features: WLAN Memory Range: 0xd0200000-0xd0201fff (rw,non-prefetchable) IRQ: 201 (no events) HW Address: 00:90:4b:53:b6:21 WLAN channels: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 WLAN frequencies: 2.412e-05 2.417e-05 2.422e-05 2.427e-05 2.432e-05 2.437e-05 2.442e-05 2.447e-05 2.452e-05 2.457e-05 2.462e-05 2.467e-05 2.472e-05 2.484e-05 WLAN bitrates: 1.2e-05 1.8e-05 2.4e-05 3.6e-05 4.8e-05 7.2e-05 9.6e-05 0.000108 2e-06 4e-06 1.1e-05 2.2e-05 WLAN encryption modes: WEP40 WEP104 WLAN authentication modes: open sharedkey Module Alias: "pci:v000014E4d00004320sv0000103Csd000012F4bc02sc80i00" Driver Info #0: Driver Status: bcm43xx is active Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe bcm43xx" Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Attached to: #8 (PCI bridge) I think it shows that my wireless card is installed successfully but I can not still connect to a network... D. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org