Re: [opensuse] Dell Wireless 1704 OpenSUSE 13.2

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 wrote:

Hi Bob,

Thanks, I will try this tomorrow

On 4 March 2015 at 17:17, Bob Williams wrote:

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On 04/03/15 16:58, Paul Groves wrote:

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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.

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