I *think* it is the bcm4306. I read about the fwcutter bit, but
thought that since I saw a line for bcm43xx in modprobe -l, I didn't
need to pursue that.
Obviously I don't completely understand modprobe, or how these pieces
all tie together. I always thought firmware referred to code inside a
chip on a piece of hardware (flash-rom). Are the .ko files displayed
when I do a 'modprobe -l' the installed device drivers? If bcm43xx.ko
& ndiswrapper.ko are listed, than that means the drivers I need are
present, right?
I'll try fwcutter and see what happens.
Thanks,
Steve
On 10/13/07, Kenneth Schneider
On Sat, 2007-10-13 at 20:49 -0400, Steve Jacobs wrote:
I've searched messages on this list, and haven't seen a solution to this yet.
I've got a Dell lnspiron 8500, with the Dell TrueMobile 1300 wireless card.
Under Win XP, and Suse 10.1 or 10.2 a long time ago using ndiswrapper, the wireless card works.
My wireless network uses WPA2-Personal, AES.
I've just installed openSuse 10.3 (32-bit). Following the install, the wireless would not connect. I saw in the install notes that if the network uses a non-broadcast ESSID, I may need to remove the intel wireless driver installed by default, and the other will install automatically. n my system neither of those intel drivers was installed by default.
As my wireless card is Broadcom, not Intel, I guessed that was why neither was installed, and also guessed neither will work for me.
Do you know which broadcom chip it uses? Some will work without using ndiswrapper. Mine uses the bcm43xx and I needed to use bcm43xx-fwcutter to extract the firmware to /lib/firmware and I also had to turn on SSID broadcast.
-- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
-- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org