Adam Jimerson wrote:

Well these wireless problem threads seem to be popular here so I'll go ahead and add another one, like everyone here is not sick of them yet, anyways I have a BCM94311MCG wireless card on my laptop, and have the driver wrapped with ndiswrapper but everything is not working right. Everytime I restart my system I still have no wireless and if I open up YaST2 Network settings it says that the module ndiswrapper has not been modprobed, I did this after I installed the driver, and just to be safe I have been telling it that I want it to modprobe it. After that my card gets labed as this:

BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (Not connected)

Also when I do ndiswrapper -l this is what it prints out:

bcmwl5 : driver installed device (14E4:4311) present (alternate driver: ssb)

That is the correct driver I used it under SUSE 10.2 and 10.3 and they worked just fine, but I have never seen it use ssb as an alternate driver. The first thing that came to mind is blacklist it but I don't know if that will help and I don't know how to blacklist a module (never had to do this in my 3 years of running Linux).

Any Clues, Pointers, Advice, solutions, comments... anything?

Thanks in advance

I have a bcm4318 built into my hp laptop and ssb did not work until I installed the firmware with /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware. Now it works with a reboot. To make sure it is always loaded, I put this in /etc/init.d/boot.local: ifdown-dhcp eth1 (I have never found out why it is not wlan0) iwconfig eth1 essid XXXXXXXX key xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ifup-dhcp eth1 -o debug,auto If you continue to use ndiswrapper, you can use "modprobe ndiswrapper" in the line above "ifdown". Ed -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Adam Jimerson wrote:

On Saturday 21 June 2008 05:30:59 pm Ed Harrison wrote:

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I have a bcm4318 built into my hp laptop and ssb did not work until I installed the firmware with /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware.

Now it works with a reboot. To make sure it is always loaded, I put this in /etc/init.d/boot.local:

ifdown-dhcp eth1 (I have never found out why it is not wlan0) iwconfig eth1 essid XXXXXXXX key xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ifup-dhcp eth1 -o debug,auto

If you continue to use ndiswrapper, you can use "modprobe ndiswrapper" in the line above "ifdown".

Ed

I just tried that and still no wireless, looking at the "BCM4311wireless broken in 11.0" thread, the guy has the same card as me, maybe I can use the b43 driver and cut out my firmware. I'm giving that a try now.

The correct b43 or b43legacy are loaded when you modprobe ssb. Ed -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org