Bcm43xx Wireless & Ac'97 Sound Problems

Hey, I've got a Gateway 7320GZ, with and 82801DB AC'97 Audio Controller and a Broadcom bcm4306 Wireless Card.

For some reason the soundcard is recognized but will not play any sound. I've tried a few things already and it still doesn't work. If there is another post with this then I'm sorry, but I'm starting to get frustrated.

My wireless card has native *nix drivers now, but all the forums and walkthroughs for installing it lack detail and are confusing at best. I'm still relatively new to the linux world but I am capable in the search and follow instructions department.

Thanks in advance,


Feanor

Hey, I've got a Gateway 7320GZ, with and 82801DB AC'97 Audio Controller and a Broadcom bcm4306 Wireless Card.

For some reason the soundcard is recognized but will not play any sound. I've tried a few things already and it still doesn't work. If there is another post with this then I'm sorry, but I'm starting to get frustrated.[/b]

Did you confirm your BIOS does not have the sound disabled?

Did you try the sound test function under YaST (moving the slider bars forward). Do you get sound there?

Did you go to KMix (if running KDE) and run Kmix, and check to ensure that the sound is not being muted, and the volume(s)/slider bar(s) are turned up?

Did you go into /etc/modprobe.d (with root permissions) and rename any files with the ascii sequence "sound" in the file name, to some other file name. And then try again with YaST to reconfigure your sound?

Can you be more specific as to what you tried, so we don't waste your time with suggestions on things that you have already tried? Also, what SuSE version are you using? Are you running Gnome or KDE?

Hey, I've got a Gateway 7320GZ, with and 82801DB AC'97 Audio Controller and a Broadcom bcm4306 Wireless Card.

My wireless card has native *nix drivers now, but all the forums and walkthroughs for installing it lack detail and are confusing at best. I'm still relatively new to the linux world but I am capable in the search and follow instructions department.

Thanks in advance,
Feanor
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YAAY!! Someone else has the same problem as I do, but it's the wifi part only. Ok, I'm not an expert on any of this stuff, but explain how I go my stuff working. First off, I don't use the linux broadcom drivers... they haven't worked for me yet. So, I just copied the drivers from my windows cd onto my flashdrive, dumped them into a folder, goto the folder, and do the following in a terminal.

ls bcm*.inf (finds whatever broadcom drivers)
ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5a.inf (It's the one that works for me. Yours could be different.)
ndiswrapper -l (just to be sure it installed)


That installs the drivers. I need to reboot to suse to see what the commands were that I used so the stupid card works.

Ok, so, my wifi still works. This is good, this is really good.
All right, I have three commands that I did, and I don't know if they'll work for you if you have encryption setup. I don't because I live in a desert, and the nearest neighbor is 200 yards away.

What I did was I created a script, and I'm not sure whether you'll have to do this everytime you reboot or not.

The commands are:

iwlist wlan0 scan
ifconfig wlan0 up
dhclient wlan0

If you want, I'll send the script. But to do any of this, you have to be root.
As for the sound, I really don't know. Is the problem with only playing mp3s or just everything? I think I have the same card as yours.
Anyway,---oh shoot, there's one or two commands I think that you need to do before you do those three commands.

Ok, it's just this one.

nidswrapper -m

That one just adds wlan0 to your modprobe configuration.

Ok, there's a program that I use occasionaly when linux doesn't find a sound card the right way.

goto a terminal, and probably as root, type in alsaconf

and that will search for your sound card.

Ok, I got my sound working by updating my alsa drivers.

As for the wireless, I was specifically asking about that driver because it is linux native and doesn't use ndiswrapper ( i just thought it would make a neat little project to get native wireless support. I can get the ndiswrapper working fine.

Thanks for your help.

Feanor