[opensuse] Dell Wireless 1704 OpenSUSE 13.2
I have recently upgraded a laptop from 13,1 to 13.2 and I am now having trouble with the wireless adapter. It is a Dell Wireless 1704 with Broadcom BCM43412 chipset. Out of the box the bluetooth wirks but not the wifi. lspci shows the adapter fine. I was very surprised when I installed 13.1 some time ago and the Broadcom adater actually worked because this is the only Broadcom card I have EVER seen working in Linux (OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian and CentOS). Obviously I got my hopes up too soon and now it does not work in 13.2. On 13.1 all I had to do was install broadcom-wl then reboot and the card worked fine. However on 13.2 this does not work and performing those same steps achieves nothing. I have just reinstalled 13.1 and can replicate the installation and the card works fine. I have tried 13.2 again and no luck. Apart from the obvious solution to every Broadcom driver issue that I have encountered in the past. (Which is to buy a Wireless adapter that works properly with Linux out of the box like Atheros or Realtek :D). Does anyone have any ideas? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Wed 04 Mar 2015 04:58:18 PM CST, Paul Groves wrote:
I have recently upgraded a laptop from 13,1 to 13.2 and I am now having trouble with the wireless adapter. It is a Dell Wireless 1704 with Broadcom BCM43412 chipset.
Out of the box the bluetooth wirks but not the wifi. lspci shows the adapter fine.
I was very surprised when I installed 13.1 some time ago and the Broadcom adater actually worked because this is the only Broadcom card I have EVER seen working in Linux (OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian and CentOS). Obviously I got my hopes up too soon and now it does not work in 13.2.
On 13.1 all I had to do was install broadcom-wl then reboot and the card worked fine. However on 13.2 this does not work and performing those same steps achieves nothing.
I have just reinstalled 13.1 and can replicate the installation and the card works fine. I have tried 13.2 again and no luck.
Apart from the obvious solution to every Broadcom driver issue that I have encountered in the past. (Which is to buy a Wireless adapter that works properly with Linux out of the box like Atheros or Realtek :D). Does anyone have any ideas? Hi Did you install the broadcom-wl package as well as the kmp? Either the blacklist isn't installed or missing firmware...
Run /sbin/lspci -nnk||grep -A3 Network Driver in use should be wl? -- Cheers Malcolm °¿° LFCS, SUSE Knowledge Partner (Linux Counter #276890) SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 GNOME 3.10.1 Kernel 3.12.36-38-default up 5 days 23:24, 4 users, load average: 0.35, 0.54, 0.64 CPU AMD A4-5150M APU @ 3.3GHz | GPU Richland Radeon HD 8350G -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Hi Malcom, Yes I did install the kmp but the wifi adapter, does not initiate at boot. like I said it was fine in 13.1 but not 13.2 It shows as a PCI device not a network adapter. On 4 March 2015 at 17:17, Malcolm <malcolmlewis@cableone.net> wrote:
On Wed 04 Mar 2015 04:58:18 PM CST, Paul Groves wrote:
I have recently upgraded a laptop from 13,1 to 13.2 and I am now having trouble with the wireless adapter. It is a Dell Wireless 1704 with Broadcom BCM43412 chipset.
Out of the box the bluetooth wirks but not the wifi. lspci shows the adapter fine.
I was very surprised when I installed 13.1 some time ago and the Broadcom adater actually worked because this is the only Broadcom card I have EVER seen working in Linux (OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian and CentOS). Obviously I got my hopes up too soon and now it does not work in 13.2.
On 13.1 all I had to do was install broadcom-wl then reboot and the card worked fine. However on 13.2 this does not work and performing those same steps achieves nothing.
I have just reinstalled 13.1 and can replicate the installation and the card works fine. I have tried 13.2 again and no luck.
Apart from the obvious solution to every Broadcom driver issue that I have encountered in the past. (Which is to buy a Wireless adapter that works properly with Linux out of the box like Atheros or Realtek :D). Does anyone have any ideas? Hi Did you install the broadcom-wl package as well as the kmp? Either the blacklist isn't installed or missing firmware...
Run /sbin/lspci -nnk||grep -A3 Network
Driver in use should be wl?
-- Cheers Malcolm °¿° LFCS, SUSE Knowledge Partner (Linux Counter #276890) SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 GNOME 3.10.1 Kernel 3.12.36-38-default up 5 days 23:24, 4 users, load average: 0.35, 0.54, 0.64 CPU AMD A4-5150M APU @ 3.3GHz | GPU Richland Radeon HD 8350G
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/03/15 16:58, Paul Groves wrote:
I have recently upgraded a laptop from 13,1 to 13.2 and I am now having trouble with the wireless adapter. It is a Dell Wireless 1704 with Broadcom BCM43412 chipset.
Out of the box the bluetooth wirks but not the wifi. lspci shows the adapter fine.
I was very surprised when I installed 13.1 some time ago and the Broadcom adater actually worked because this is the only Broadcom card I have EVER seen working in Linux (OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian and CentOS). Obviously I got my hopes up too soon and now it does not work in 13.2.
On 13.1 all I had to do was install broadcom-wl then reboot and the card worked fine. However on 13.2 this does not work and performing those same steps achieves nothing.
I have just reinstalled 13.1 and can replicate the installation and the card works fine. I have tried 13.2 again and no luck.
Apart from the obvious solution to every Broadcom driver issue that I have encountered in the past. (Which is to buy a Wireless adapter that works properly with Linux out of the box like Atheros or Realtek :D). Does anyone have any ideas?
Although your chipset is not listed, it may be worth trying the drivers available from Broadcom: http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php The Readme gives good instructions on how to install them. I've had good results on two Dell laptops here. Bob - -- Bob Williams System: Linux 3.16.7-7-desktop Distro: openSUSE 13.2 (x86_64) with KDE Development Platform: 4.14.3 Uptime: 06:00am up 7:55, 3 users, load average: 0.16, 0.05, 0.06 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlT3PjoACgkQ0Sr7eZJrmU4g7QCffVlrC2vUqKW2lAiMkPgkI13g QUkAn2S4DvAfQuGF1necDGoZUaCNd1UG =7t1r -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Hi Bob, Thanks, I will try this tomorrow On 4 March 2015 at 17:17, Bob Williams <linux@barrowhillfarm.org.uk> wrote:
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On 04/03/15 16:58, Paul Groves wrote:
I have recently upgraded a laptop from 13,1 to 13.2 and I am now having trouble with the wireless adapter. It is a Dell Wireless 1704 with Broadcom BCM43412 chipset.
Out of the box the bluetooth wirks but not the wifi. lspci shows the adapter fine.
I was very surprised when I installed 13.1 some time ago and the Broadcom adater actually worked because this is the only Broadcom card I have EVER seen working in Linux (OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian and CentOS). Obviously I got my hopes up too soon and now it does not work in 13.2.
On 13.1 all I had to do was install broadcom-wl then reboot and the card worked fine. However on 13.2 this does not work and performing those same steps achieves nothing.
I have just reinstalled 13.1 and can replicate the installation and the card works fine. I have tried 13.2 again and no luck.
Apart from the obvious solution to every Broadcom driver issue that I have encountered in the past. (Which is to buy a Wireless adapter that works properly with Linux out of the box like Atheros or Realtek :D). Does anyone have any ideas?
Although your chipset is not listed, it may be worth trying the drivers available from Broadcom:
http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php
The Readme gives good instructions on how to install them. I've had good results on two Dell laptops here.
Bob - -- Bob Williams System: Linux 3.16.7-7-desktop Distro: openSUSE 13.2 (x86_64) with KDE Development Platform: 4.14.3 Uptime: 06:00am up 7:55, 3 users, load average: 0.16, 0.05, 0.06 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2
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Hi Bob, I tried the package from Broadcom and it did not work either. In the end I have swapped the wireless adapter with the Atheros AR9485 one from my windows 7 laptop as it is not really worth the time messing around with this. Thanks for the help anyway. :) On 4 March 2015 at 22:32, Paul Groves <paul.groves.787@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Bob,
Thanks, I will try this tomorrow
On 4 March 2015 at 17:17, Bob Williams <linux@barrowhillfarm.org.uk> wrote:
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On 04/03/15 16:58, Paul Groves wrote:
I have recently upgraded a laptop from 13,1 to 13.2 and I am now having trouble with the wireless adapter. It is a Dell Wireless 1704 with Broadcom BCM43412 chipset.
Out of the box the bluetooth wirks but not the wifi. lspci shows the adapter fine.
I was very surprised when I installed 13.1 some time ago and the Broadcom adater actually worked because this is the only Broadcom card I have EVER seen working in Linux (OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian and CentOS). Obviously I got my hopes up too soon and now it does not work in 13.2.
On 13.1 all I had to do was install broadcom-wl then reboot and the card worked fine. However on 13.2 this does not work and performing those same steps achieves nothing.
I have just reinstalled 13.1 and can replicate the installation and the card works fine. I have tried 13.2 again and no luck.
Apart from the obvious solution to every Broadcom driver issue that I have encountered in the past. (Which is to buy a Wireless adapter that works properly with Linux out of the box like Atheros or Realtek :D). Does anyone have any ideas?
Although your chipset is not listed, it may be worth trying the drivers available from Broadcom:
http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php
The Readme gives good instructions on how to install them. I've had good results on two Dell laptops here.
Bob - -- Bob Williams System: Linux 3.16.7-7-desktop Distro: openSUSE 13.2 (x86_64) with KDE Development Platform: 4.14.3 Uptime: 06:00am up 7:55, 3 users, load average: 0.16, 0.05, 0.06 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2
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