10.3 Not Recongising Any Wireless Networks

ok so here goes im a complete and utter newbie to the linux world so be nice
ive got ahp laptop
suse 10.3
my card name thing is hewlett-packard company BCM94311MCG
ok so
i think the wirelesss is suported but when i click to view wireless networks there are none:S
when i definatly have one running,
what settings am i missing
ive tryed the other networks thing but i cant undersatdn it always gets stuck on 28% of connection
pleaseeeeee help me
would be frateful
maybe someone adding me on msn to give me a bit of hands on help:
sam_jkelley@hotmail.com

Welcome to the forum, and linux.

I have an HP laptop with Intel Pro 4965 wireless. At a console as root run 'lspci' without the quotes and check if you have the same device. If you have then the following may help:

Assuming you have cable internet access and have updated your kernel and kernel sources (as a minimum, there are many updates) with the openSUSE Updater, and know how to use Yast to install packages:

(1) After updating your kernel and sources, install 2 packages:
iwl4965-ucode - from the main non-OSS repository
iwlwifi-kmp-default - from the Main Update repository, if your kernel is the default 32 bit kernel (run 'uname -r' without the quotes from a console to find out), otherwise use some other iwlwifi-kmp-? that corresponds to your kernel.

(2) Reboot (probably optional - try the next step first - if you cannot see your wifi device driver listed in Yast then reboot)

(2) Go to Yast Network Devices>Network Card
You should see two devices listed - wifi and cable
Global Options - check 'User Controlled with Network Manager'
Overview - select the wifi device and select Configure
General tab - Activate Device "On Cable Connection", Assign Interface to Firewall Zone "External Zone"
Address tab - Dynamic Address by DHCP (assuming your router assigns an IP for you)
Hardware Tab - Module Name "iwl4965" - this is your kernel device driver for the wifi card
Select "Next" and enter your wifi network access details.
Finish

Enter 'iwconfig' in a console and you should see your ESSID assigned to your card's MAC address. Am assuming you use WAP open security with a passphrase on your network.

The above may appear daunting if you are completely new to linux, however the intel pro wifi is rock solid once you get it going so worth the effort.

There are many different ways to achive the same end in linux. The above uses mostly automated gui apps to do the job.

Have fun...

not all BCM cards are fully supported by the opensource driver yet. I've not checked to see if yours is or isn't. You may have to configure ndiswrapper in the mean time.

Sincere apologies. For some reason I thought HP laptop wireless = Intel Pro wireless but yours is a Broadcom. Must have been dreaming.

Not as straight forward unfortunately. Take a look here, mainly post #7:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/li...83/#post3043241

Hope this helps...

Hi

Give us more info as to your situation:
what do you have in Yast-->network card?

also give us the results of the following commands:

ifconfig

iwconfig