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Old 03-Jul-2008, 08:31
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Default Re: Broadcom 4306 not Connecting

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Originally Posted by rbkumaran View Post
Just a thought, are you dual booting with Windows? if so, disable power management under Device manager

Wireless will not work when dual-boot with Windows XP | SUSE & openSUSE

This should be made a sticky. This is absolutely correct and making the changes in Windows and then rebooting to Suse I was able to see all wireless ESSIDs around me.

However, I did notice one thing. Right clicking on the applet and entering the information from there (WEP or WPA Security Key) does NOT complete the process.

You must go into Yast and setup your wireless connection there while hooked up to a wired connection. It appears that the NetworkManager in KDE4 needs to be accessed this way because in order to setup the wireless network it must connect to a repository.

I believe I read some thread where people were trying "just" to connect using the applet. That would not work for me, but once I used Yast, the applet changed to wireless with graduated bars.

Hope this helps someone.
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