Acer Aspire 5517 no wireless

[The_Saracen]

I recently purchased a laptop and put OpenSuse 11.2 32-bit on my machine.

Newegg.com - Acer Aspire AS5517-5671 NoteBook AMD Athlon 64 TF-20(1.60GHz) 15.6" 3GB Memory DDR2 667 160GB HDD 5400rpm DVD Super Multi ATI Radeon HD 3200


One problems I am having with it is i cannot get it to connect through wireless (but wired is fine).
On the network controller applet it displays
"wired network
system eth0"

and no options for wireless even after setting the wireless infomation (SSID and wpa psk info) it will not display the option to connect to wireless

When I ran the command "lspci -vnn" I got the following for ethernet controllers



02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g [14e4:4315] (rev 01)

Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. Device [105b:e01b]

Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16

Memory at d1100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]

Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3

Capabilities: [58] Vendor Specific Information <?>

Capabilities: [e8] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+

Capabilities: [d0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00

Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting

Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel <?>

Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 00-00-00-ff-ff-00-ff-ff

Capabilities: [16c] Power Budgeting <?>

Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge


08:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Attansic Technology Corp. Atheros AR8132 / L1c Gigabit Ethernet Adapter [1969:1062] (rev c0)

Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:028d]

Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 29

Memory at d1000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]

I/O ports at 2000 [size=128]

Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3

Capabilities: [48] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+

Capabilities: [58] Express Endpoint, MSI 00

Capabilities: [6c] Vital Product Data

Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting

Capabilities: [180] Device Serial Number ff-33-ee-47-70-5a-b6-ff

Kernel driver in use: atl1c


Ive run the command sudo /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware

but it did not get the wireless working. any help will greatly appreciated

[caf4926]

You need to add the Packman repo

Open a terminal and become su -

do this:

zypper ar -f http://packman.unixheads.com/suse/11.2/ packman

then

zypper ref

accept key/licence

then post me the result of this so I can tell you exactly which package

uname -a

[The_Saracen]

Thanks for the info!

heres the result of uname -a

Linux linux-8dtg 2.6.31.12-0.2-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2010-03-16 21:25:39 +0100 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

[caf4926]

OK. Again in a su - terminal, assuming you added the Packman repo as I asked, do this:

zypper in broadcom-wl broadcom-wl-kmp-desktop

Once that's done, a reboot is the easiest. See how you get on..

[The_Saracen]

Alright, that did it! Thanks so much for helping me with this.

[caf4926]

Alright, that did it! Thanks so much for helping me with this.

You are most welcome Saracen. Enjoy openSUSE