Ahhhh help!

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Hi all,

Could really do with some help as I have come to a standstill trying to get my laptop onto my wireless network.

The card (Broadcom 0c.00.0 0280:14e4:4315) is installed fine and is able to scan and see my ap. But according to ifconfig, only the wired connection has and is holding onto an ip address (dhcp) and i cant get the wireless to pickup the connection.

/user/sbin/iwconfig gets the response that it doesn’t exist, even if I run as sudo.
I try to make a manual connection by filling out all the details in the connection manager but the accept box is greyed out.

I’m sure it will be something simple, but my linux knowledge is not that great as I’m sure you can tell!!

Many thanks in advance,

Kev.

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Forgot to mention, if i use the ifup wlan0 i just get an error telling me its denied.

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Please post result from a terminal of

/sbin/lspci -nnk

like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzS0qqWPKY0)

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0c:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card [1028:000c]
Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge

Thanks

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while waiting on a real wireless guru (i certainly am not) have a look
at the three ‘stickies’ at the top of this forum
http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-help-here/wireless/

one of them has some instructions on what info will be helpful to the
real guru when s/he shows up…gather that info and post it to this
thread…

and, if still no one has shown up in a blue jump suit and red cape,
then use the forums advanced search to look for posts with words like:
Broadcom and ???

WELCOME new poster…for next time: a descriptive subject is better as
everyone here wants Hellllppppp!

–
DenverD
When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD [posted via NNTP w/openSUSE 10.3]

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Thanks buddy, I did read through the stickies and tried everything there, this new thread was a last resort.

Didn’t post up all the info specified as thought I had negated the need for certain details from doing the checks in the sticky. Obviously not eh!

Point taken about the descriptive title. Will remedy in the future!

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I use the wl driver instead
Install Broadcom Drivers from Packman

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Thanks for the fast response!

Done that, now i get:
0c:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card [1028:000c]
Kernel driver in use: wl

It is now allowing me to run the iwconfig:
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11 Access Point: Not-Associated
Link Quality:5 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 invalid crypt:0 invalid misc:0

And for ifconfig:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:23:AE:31:0B:5E
inet addr:86.16.187.167 Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.252.0
inet6 addr: fe80::223:aeff:fe31:b5e/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:319 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:301 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:56628 (55.3 Kb) TX bytes:145226 (141.8 Kb)
Interrupt:18

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:820 (820.0 b) TX bytes:820 (820.0 b)

Only mention in dmesg:
8.812246] eth1: Broadcom BCM4315 802.11 Hybrid Wireless Controller 5.60.48.
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Now the big question, where do i go from here? I’ve just tried running a scan with iwlist and what was working before now gives me:
eth1 Failed to read scan data : Invalid argument

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I have broadcom and use wl, here:

04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Broadcom Corporation Device [14e4:04b5]
Kernel driver in use: wl
I can use either the b43 or wl but wl seems to perform better for me.

If you want to try switching back to b43, remove the wl packages and do this

sudo /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware

modprobe b43

Check here for any b43 blacklist files: /etc/modprobe.d
and remove them
reboot