[opensuse] How does Broadcom wi-fi work for You?
Hello, I have this Dell Vostro 1220 http://www.smolts.org/show?uuid=pub_b5e8a9b3-2a44-4453-8207-40f1ccc582b9 and I faced several troubles when installing new openSUSE. It has wi-fi card from Broadcom (driver b43). After installation system does not show any hardware problem with wi-fi, but it does not work. When I go to YaST, I see that driver ssb is loaded for Broadcom wi-fi card and everything seems OK, but it does not work. In dmesg I see I have to run as root nstall_bcm43xx_firmware. After it the wi-fi starts to work. Well, after installation, I d expect two variants: 1) the firmware is automatically downloaded and used (similar to Ubuntu) OR 2) system tells me something is wrong and driver is missing. But now I!m faced to state, when it looks like it is working, but it is not. And it is wrong. Does anyone has same experience? Is it for bug report or feature request? Second think is I faced problems when connecting to home wi-fi (it uses WPA2 key, but I tried it also with open wi-fi) - it tries to connect, but it fails. There is nothing strange in logs, only that "authentication timed out"... On Acer with similar Broadcom wi-fi and Ubuntu it works fine. But I can access school network, so I!m not sure where is the problem... Any idea? Best regards! -- Vojtěch Zeisek Komunita openSUSE GNU/Linuxu Community of the openSUSE GNU/Linux http://www.opensuse.org/ http://web.natur.cuni.cz/~zeisek/
2010/8/8 Vojtěch Zeisek <Vojtech.Zeisek@opensuse.org>:
Hello, I have this Dell Vostro 1220 http://www.smolts.org/show?uuid=pub_b5e8a9b3-2a44-4453-8207-40f1ccc582b9 and I faced several troubles when installing new openSUSE. It has wi-fi card from Broadcom (driver b43). After installation system does not show any hardware problem with wi-fi, but it does not work. When I go to YaST, I see that driver ssb is loaded for Broadcom wi-fi card and everything seems OK, but it does not work. In dmesg I see I have to run as root nstall_bcm43xx_firmware. After it the wi-fi starts to work. Well, after installation, I d expect two variants: 1) the firmware is automatically downloaded and used (similar to Ubuntu) OR 2) system tells me something is wrong and driver is missing. But now I!m faced to state, when it looks like it is working, but it is not. And it is wrong. Does anyone has same experience? Is it for bug report or feature request? Second think is I faced problems when connecting to home wi-fi (it uses WPA2 key, but I tried it also with open wi-fi) - it tries to connect, but it fails. There is nothing strange in logs, only that "authentication timed out"... On Acer with similar Broadcom wi-fi and Ubuntu it works fine. But I can access school network, so I!m not sure where is the problem... Any idea? Best regards! -- Vojtěch Zeisek
lsmod|grep b43 b43 186367 0 mac80211 247799 1 b43 cfg80211 155959 2 b43,mac80211 ssb 55599 1 b43 mmc_core 72345 2 b43,ssb
b43 works for me with 11.3 pcmcia 58755 2 b43,ssb I'm using WPA with PSK with a Broadcom 4306. sudo /sbin/lspci| grep Broad 02:0a.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03) Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 08 August 2010 09:37:33 am Vojtěch Zeisek wrote:
Hello, I have this Dell Vostro 1220 http://www.smolts.org/show?uuid=pub_b5e8a9b3-2a44-4453-8207-40f1ccc582b9 and I faced several troubles when installing new openSUSE. It has wi-fi card from Broadcom (driver b43). After installation system does not show any hardware problem with wi-fi, but it does not work. When I go to YaST, I see that driver ssb is loaded for Broadcom wi-fi card and everything seems OK, but it does not work. In dmesg I see I have to run as root nstall_bcm43xx_firmware. After it the wi-fi starts to work. Well, after installation, I d expect two variants: 1) the firmware is automatically downloaded and used (similar to Ubuntu) OR 2) system tells me something is wrong and driver is missing. But now I!m faced to state, when it looks like it is working, but it is not. And it is wrong. Does anyone has same experience? Is it for bug report or feature request? Second think is I faced problems when connecting to home wi-fi (it uses WPA2 key, but I tried it also with open wi-fi) - it tries to connect, but it fails. There is nothing strange in logs, only that "authentication timed out"... On Acer with similar Broadcom wi-fi and Ubuntu it works fine. But I can access school network, so I!m not sure where is the problem... Any idea? Best regards!
don't know which suse you got, but my 64bit 11.1/kde3 had constant problems with knetworkmanager in a vostro 1710. solved 99.9% of them by switching to ifup/ifdown and installing wicd. sometimes it takes a bit of a delay to make a new connection (especially if the laptop wakes up from a suspend), but it always works:) The only real downside is that wicd does not really hide the various passwords, if one clicks on the entry the dots go away and the pword is shown!!!!! d. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 11:29 PM, <kanenas@hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
don't know which suse you got, but my 64bit 11.1/kde3 had constant problems with knetworkmanager in a vostro 1710. solved 99.9% of them by switching to ifup/ifdown and installing wicd. sometimes it takes a bit of a delay to make a new connection (especially if the laptop wakes up from a suspend), but it always works:) The only real downside is that wicd does not really hide the various passwords, if one clicks on the entry the dots go away and the pword is shown!!!!! d.
+1 to switching to wicd. Prior to 11.3, wifi was very reliable for me - running install_bcm43xx_firmware was the only step needed to get my bcm4318 card to work. With 11.3, I had to disable knetwork manager and go with wicd to get a connection. Using 64bit also, kde4.x. Nkoli -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
2010/8/9 Vojtěch Zeisek <Vojtech.Zeisek@opensuse.org>:
Hello, I have this Dell Vostro 1220 http://www.smolts.org/show?uuid=pub_b5e8a9b3-2a44-4453-8207-40f1ccc582b9 and I faced several troubles when installing new openSUSE. It has wi-fi card from Broadcom (driver b43). After installation system does not show any hardware problem with wi-fi, but it does not work. When I go to YaST, I see that driver ssb is loaded for Broadcom wi-fi card and everything seems OK, but it does not work. In dmesg I see I have to run as root nstall_bcm43xx_firmware. After it the wi-fi starts to work.
In my case with Broadcom BCM4312, I blacklist ssb and b43, then it works using broadcom-wl and -broadcom-wl-kmp-desktop from Packman. -- medwinz ======================= http://medwinz.blogsome.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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