Hi there,
I’m sort of a new linux user, so dont know much of what i’m doing. anyways, i got opensuse 11.1 on my laptop but there are no network drivers for both the ethernet and wireless cards. Now from what i can gather my laptop has the b43-cutter to extract the firmware for the drivers, so what i did was get the driver manually and extracted it onto my home folder. I used the following commands to do the rest (i got them from another related forum)to complete the installation:
*
sudo mkdir -p /lib/firmware
sudo b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware \ broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5/driver/wl_apsta_mimo.o*
However, when i run the last command in, i get an error message :*Cannot open the input file broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5/driver/wl_apsta_mimo.o *.
The file and the folder does exist though, and i have been following the right cases (no uppercases). Am i doing something wrong?
lijo4you wrote:
> Hi there,
> I’m sort of a new linux user, so dont know much of what i’m doing.
> anyways, i got opensuse 11.1 on my laptop but there are no network
> drivers for both the ethernet and wireless cards. Now from what i can
> gather my laptop has the b43-cutter to extract the firmware for the
> drivers, so what i did was get the driver manually and extracted it onto
> my home folder. I used the following commands to do the rest (i got them
> from another related forum)to complete the installation:
> -
> sudo mkdir -p /lib/firmware
> sudo b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware
> broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5/driver/wl_apsta_mimo.o-
>
> However, when i run the last command in, i get an error message
> :-Cannot open the input file
> broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5/driver/wl_apsta_mimo.o -.
>
> The file and the folder does exist though, and i have been following
> the right cases (no uppercases). Am i doing something wrong?
Is that last “-” there? It should not be. As long as
“broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5/driver/wl_apsta_mimo.o” exists, fwcutter
should run.
Are you sure you have a 4313? I’ve not heard of that one. What is the
output of
Hi Larry,
Sorry for the late response. It was my mistake, its actually 4311 and not 4313. My bad.
Anyways, I read thru the sticky notes which were very helpful. I found out that the firmware wasnt installed in my system. So i googled it up and downloaded a general b43 firmware (www.omattos.com/broadcom/b43-all-fw.tar.gz) onto /lib/firmware and after restarting the system…VOILA! Wlan works rotfl!
