Hello! I think life is lot easier using MS Windows. I have a dell studio 1535 laptop. I installed Suse 11.1 on it. This is what I found out using YaST Hardware information about the network card;
Bus ID:12
Bus: PCI
Device(spec): Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-card
Device Identifier(spec):65548
Device Identifier:82709
Devie:BCM4312 802.11b/g
Hwcfg Bus: pci
Model:Dell wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card
Old Unique key:u2Sd.pDi|KSkvxw6
Parent Unique ID: qTvu.VNTpR9_N|0
Sysfs ID:/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c/0000:0c:00.0
Sysfs ID: 0000:0c:00.0
I tried to follow the instructions that I found by searching through the web to install the wifi and make it work. So, I don’t have to bother anyone. But I failed.
This is What I did using gnome terminal.
“/sbin/lspci” -----> I typed—> result follows;
0c:00.0 Network Controller:Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev01)
“/sbin/lspci -n” ----->Then I typed this result follows;
0c:00.0 0280: 14e4:4315 (rev01)
Then I typed “dmesg|less”. But I couldn’t find anything like this—>“b43-phy0:Broadcom 4311 WLAN found”.
Then I followed these steps…
linux-s4z5:/home/shahnur/Desktop # wget http://bu3sch.de/b43/fwcutter/bcm43xx-fwcutter-006.tar.bz2
–2009-02-05 13:12:25-- http://bu3sch.de/b43/fwcutter/bcm43xx-fwcutter-006.tar.bz2
Resolving bu3sch.de… 62.75.166.246
Connecting to bu3sch.de|62.75.166.246|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 27525 (27K) [application/x-tar]
Saving to: `bcm43xx-fwcutter-006.tar.bz2’
100%===================================================================================================================>] 27,525 41.1K/s in 0.7s
2009-02-05 13:12:26 (41.1 KB/s) - `bcm43xx-fwcutter-006.tar.bz2’ saved [27525/27525]
linux-s4z5:/home/shahnur/Desktop # tar xjf bcm43xx-fwcutter-006.tar.bz2
linux-s4z5:/home/shahnur/Desktop # cd bcm43xx-fwcutter-006
linux-s4z5:/home/shahnur/Desktop/bcm43xx-fwcutter-006 # make
cc -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -std=c99 -Wall -pedantic -D_BSD_SOURCE -DFWCUTTER_VERSION_=006 -c -o fwcutter.o fwcutter.c
make: cc: Command not found
make: *** [fwcutter.o] Error 127
linux-s4z5:/home/shahnur/Desktop/bcm43xx-fwcutter-006 # cd…
linux-s4z5:/home/shahnur/Desktop # export FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR="/lib/firmware"
linux-s4z5:/home/shahnur/Desktop # wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o
–2009-02-05 13:15:54-- http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o
Resolving downloads.openwrt.org… 195.56.146.238
Connecting to downloads.openwrt.org|195.56.146.238|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 652866 (638K) [application/x-object]
Saving to: `wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o’
100%===================================================================================================================>] 652,866 282K/s in 2.3s
2009-02-05 13:15:56 (282 KB/s) - `wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o’ saved [652866/652866]
linux-s4z5:/home/shahnur/Desktop # sudo ./bcm43xx-fwcutter-006/bcm43xx-fwcutter -w “$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR”
sudo: ./bcm43xx-fwcutter-006/bcm43xx-fwcutter: command not found
linux-s4z5:/home/shahnur/Desktop # wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o
bash: wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o: command not found
linux-s4z5:/home/shahnur/Desktop # uname -a
Linux linux-s4z5 2.6.27.7-9-pae #1 SMP 2008-12-04 18:10:04 +0100 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
linux-s4z5:/home/shahnur/Desktop # lspci -vvn|grep 43 -A7
03:01.2 0880: 1180:0843 (rev 12)
Subsystem: 1028:0254
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 64, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 3
Region 0: Memory at f68ff500 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
0c:00.0 0280: 14e4:4315 (rev 01)
Subsystem: 1028:000c
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
Region 0: Memory at f6cfc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
linux-s4z5:/home/shahnur/Desktop #
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