Re: [opensuse] Installing wireless on Dell Vostro

On Tuesday 06 October 2009 01:07:49 am Stan Goodman wrote:

At 00:13:10 on Monday Monday 05 October 2009, Felix Miata

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On 2009/10/04 23:53 (GMT+0200) Stan Goodman composed:

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I am now trying to install the internal wireless card in my Vostro notebook machine....

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As a matter of good citizenship, I should probably mention that the Broadcom bcm4322 wireless card, which is built in to the Vostro 15 notebook machine does not appear in the list of cards supported by the NDISWrapper either, a remarkable fact for a machine intended to be loaded with Linux.

At this point, I think the simplest way to gain wireless capability would be to buy an external USB wireless dongle, a supported one, of course (the machine hasn't support for PCMCIA cards).

-- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel

stan, try the ndiswrapper. my vostro works with it. somewhat, that is , it is always an adventure to connect to a *new* connection or to switch from one to another after putting the machine to sleep. i runn 11.1 with kde3 and knetworkmanager flakes out a lot and ifup has a hard time forgetting the "old" connection even after it is reset in yast. i often do a lot of "rmmod ndiswrapper"close knetworkmanager and reconfig, it often seems that ndiswrapper gets multiple installs, but, there are times everything works with no problem. so far i have been unable to make a connection only 3-4 times in more than 100 diff locations, but the painless ones are only a handful. no i don't know the exact chip i have, but i believe the "exterior" name is bcm4322. when i go to the shop l will check the rest. good luck, d. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org