Bcm94311 Mcg

Hi to everyone,
I just installed a new version of openSuse 10.3 on my laptop
the great thing is that my BCM94311 MCG wlan mini-PCI is getting immediately recognized and getting listed in my network devices (not like with my other laptop where with another hardware card it wasn't getting recognized)

but I can't manage to make the system find any networks or to connect to my home wireless network.
I tried connecting directly using ESSID and WEP key of my home, or trying to find available connections also using KDE wireless manager.
But there is no way to make it connect nor find networks.

Anyone experienced something similar?

post the output of

/sbin/lspci -v

so we can see what drivers are needed/being used. my suspicions are, it is using bcm43xx, if so, you can get this working with the bcm firmware from here http://packages.opensuse-community.org/ind...ro=openSUSE_103
it's the second one down. if it is the rt2xxx chip-set inside you may need to follow this guide http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/index.ph...st&p=208353
so as soon as you post results, we will let you know

Andy

thank you for your help

this is what I am getting
so do I have to use the patch you are talking about?

05:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 0007
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
Memory at d0100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [58] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable-
Capabilities: [d0] Express Legacy Endpoint IRQ 0
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel

yep, use the firmware. if you have any problems, post back. you could also use ndiswrapper, but, that's only if you can't get the firmware to work

Andy

What can I say..... THANK YOU! It works perfectly... I was starting to lose hope Thank you
The first time after I rebooted my pc there was an error saying to reboot again. I didn't paid attention to write down error logs just hoping that was some temporary error. Infact after that, rebooting I had no error and wifi is working great. Thanks again!

Excellent, strike one for the good guys now enjoy. don't worry about the error,it's just a minor glitch when first using the driver & as you noticed, it sorts itself out

Andy