Re: [opensuse] persistent bcm43xx ..

On Mon, 2008-05-26 at 08:16 +0200, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:

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On 26.05.2008 at 03:11, "John Andersen" wrote: On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:

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On 25-05-2008 at 09:57, Sampsa Riikonen wrote: Dear List,

I had my wireless working OK few months ago in my hp tx1000 laptop. The wireless card in this pc is broadcom bcm4312.

.. now it suddenly stopped working (maybe because upgrading regularly with the updater applet?).

In yast => network devices => etc. => wireless => configure => hardware, the list of kernel modules does not offer anything (just a blank line) .. it used to offer ndiswrapper.

I suppose this might be because of the bcm43xx driver. Well, I have blaclisted it in several files..

Why would you prefer ndiswrapper ove the native bcm43xx driver? I'd say there is no need to wrap if you have a correctly working, native linux driver available.

ndiswrapper is meant for wlan cards that do not have linux drivers (yet).

Dominique

Maybe he likes it ndiswrapper because it works and bcm does not work with his card. You know, basic stuff like that? For many, the need to be pure is less important than the need to get on line.

That's a nice 'maybe' sentence you can produce here, without any real content. He did not write so far that bcm does not work. I simply suggested to use the native driver that is working for so many people.

It's 'purely' amazing what an attitude of 'stcuk-upness' some people have on this list. I'm really sorry for everybody that has to read such mailing lists. And for sure our new fellows will be scared away when they have to go through the ML archives, in hope to find some help.

Can't we just stick to the topics of the questions? Answer our fellow friends, give them advises? You can follow almost every thread here and they carry on for ever, with all sort comments that are not at all related to what the original question was.

Think about this for a few minutes!

lspci gives.. --------------------- 03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11a/b/g (rev 02) ---------------------- And according to linuxwireless.org .. "The 802.11a part of the 4309 and 4312 is not supported" ----------------------- So I suppose I must use ndiswrapper. As you can see from my previous e-mail, the ndiswrapper installs correctly, but yast does not offer me any kernel modules. .. just wondering if it is because of that bcm43xx that refuses to disappear or what? Sampsa -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org