Hi everyone, I just picked up a new/used Dell XPS 13 9350 and I have installed Leap on it, dual boot, from an installation stick. The first thing I need to do in order to get it to run effectively is to get the network running. I am reading a lot about getting networks running, and there seems to be some conflicting information, but here is the gist. Since broadcom drivers are not packaged with opensuse, I have to get them from packman. Here is my hardware: # hwinfo --netcard 24: PCI 3a00.0: 0280 Network controller [Created at pci.366] Unique ID: wEmM.V+SdiVP1_e1 Parent ID: QSNP.vlzHRHZSxX0 SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.4/0000:3a:00.0 SysFS BusID: 0000:3a:00.0 Hardware Class: network Model: "Broadcom Network controller" Vendor: pci 0x14e4 "Broadcom" Device: pci 0x43a3 SubVendor: pci 0x1028 "Dell" SubDevice: pci 0x0023 Revision: 0x08 Memory Range: 0xdc400000-0xdc407fff (rw,non-prefetchable,disabled) Memory Range: 0xdc000000-0xdc3fffff (rw,non-prefetchable,disabled) IRQ: 255 (no events) Module Alias: "pci:v000014E4d000043A3sv00001028sd00000023bc02sc80i00" Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Attached to: #18 (PCI bridge) And here is more: # lspci | grep Network 3a:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Device 43a3 (rev 08) So on my other laptop, I went to the packman repos and downloaded the rpms that I thought were applicable to my card, and then transferred them with a stick to my new laptop (it doesn't have an ethernet port): ~/Downloads/broadcom> ls broadcom-wl-6.30.223.248-8.6.x86_64.rpm broadcom-wl-debugsource-6.30.223.248-8.6.x86_64.rpm broadcom-wl-kmp-default-debuginfo-6.30.223.248_k4.1.15_8-8.6.x86_64.rpm broadcom-wl-kmp-pv-6.30.223.248_k4.1.15_8-8.6.x86_64.rpm broadcom-wl-kmp-pv-debuginfo-6.30.223.248_k4.1.15_8-8.6.x86_64.rpm broadcom-wl-kmp-xen-6.30.223.248_k4.1.15_8-8.6.x86_64.rpm broadcom-wl-kmp-xen-debuginfo-6.30.223.248_k4.1.15_8-8.6.x86_64.rpm I read something about needing to install firmware, but I am a bit nervous about that. This page gave some idea: http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/os-applications/f/4613/t/19659067?pi... Besides, that, I installed the broadcom-wl package and rebooted, but the wireless still didn't come up. I don't know if I need to install firmware, get a new kernel, or what? Without a network, I can't very well get the new kernel. Any suggestions? I would very much appreciate help, or even some coaching to get the wireless working on my new device. -- George Box: 42.1 | KDE Plasma 5 | AMD Phenom IIX4 | 64 | 32GB Laptop #1: 42.1 | KDE Plasma 5 | Core i7-4710HQ | 64 | 16GB Laptop #2: 42.1 | Gnome new | Core i5?? | 64 | 8GB -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org