On 17/12/09 16:13, Fr David Ousley wrote:
I'm installing 11.2 on a new Dell Inspirion laptop with a Broadcom 1397 wireless minicard, which I cannot get to work.
Hardware list (in Yast) shows:
Hardware Class: network Model: "Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card" Vendor: pci 0x14e4 "Broadcom" Device: pci 0x4315 "BCM4312 802.11b/g" SubVendor: pci 0x1028 "Dell" SubDevice: pci 0x000c "Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card" Revision: 0x01 Driver: "b43-pci-bridge" Driver Modules: "ssb" Memory Range: 0xf69fc000-0xf69fffff (rw,non-prefetchable) IRQ: 17 (no events) Module Alias: "pci:v000014E4d00004315sv00001028sd0000000Cbc02sc80i00" Driver Info #0: Driver Status: ssb is active Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe ssb" Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Attached to: #23 (PCI bridge) Unfortunately the device you have here is a half-height LP_PHY variant of the BCM4312 and as such is not supported in kernel 2.6.31 which ships with openSUSE 11.2.
See http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 The good news is that it is supported in 2.6.32. Until then your best option is to install the proprietary driver provided by by Broadcom (it's available in packman) called broadcom-wl. Works fine for me. Regards, Tejas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org