Asus Netbook cannot find network card

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Hello i recently bought this Netbook:
http://www.amazon.de/F201E-KX062DU-Netbook-Intel-celeron-320GB/dp/B00CMJ2QHW/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1382017400&sr=8-2&keywords=asus+linux

It comes with Ubuntu preinstalled so I thought it should work without problems with opensuse too. Well i guess i was wrong.
Opensuse seems to not be able to work with the network card. When i go into network configuration the only option I can choose is VPN. Cable and Wireless are disabled.
Here are some details

cat /etc/SuSE-*

openSUSE
VERSION = 12.3
openSUSE 12.3 (x86_64)
VERSION = 12.3
CODENAME = Dartmouth

uname -a

Linux linux-j7g9.site3.7.10-1.1-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Feb 28 15:06:29 UTC 2013(82d3f21) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

/sbin/lspci -nnk | grep -i -A2 net

02:00.0 Network controller [0280]:Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller[14e4:4727] (rev 01)
Subsystem: AzureWave Device[1a3b:2047]
Kernel driver in use:bcma-pci-bridge
03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]:Atheros Communications Inc. AR8162 Fast Ethernet [1969:1090] (rev 10)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK ComputerInc. Device [1043:200f]

sudo /usr/sbin/hwinfo --netcard

21: PCI 200.0: 0280 Network controller
[Created at pci.319]
Unique ID: B35A.HnhErYJK491
Parent ID: qTvu.8fhFxsYg7i0
SysFS ID:/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.1/0000:02:00.0
SysFS BusID: 0000:02:00.0
Hardware Class: network
Model: “Broadcom Networkcontroller”
Vendor: pci 0x14e4 “Broadcom”
Device: pci 0x4727
SubVendor: pci 0x1a3b
SubDevice: pci 0x2047
Revision: 0x01
Driver: “bcma-pci-bridge”
Driver Modules: “bcma”
Memory Range: 0xf7d00000-0xf7d03fff(rw,non-prefetchable)
IRQ: 17 (no events)
Module Alias:“pci:v000014E4d00004727sv00001A3Bsd00002047bc02sc80i00”
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: bcma is active
Driver Activation Cmd: “modprobebcma”
Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes,need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #15 (PCI bridge)

22: PCI 300.0: 0200 Ethernet controller
[Created at pci.319]
Unique ID: svHJ.YKN88KfF5z0
Parent ID: Z7uZ.CJTFs81VEE2
SysFS ID:/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.3/0000:03:00.0
SysFS BusID: 0000:03:00.0
Hardware Class: network
Model: “Attansic Ethernetcontroller”
Vendor: pci 0x1969 “AttansicTechnology Corp.”
Device: pci 0x1090
SubVendor: pci 0x1043 “ASUSTeKComputer Inc.”
SubDevice: pci 0x200f
Revision: 0x10
Memory Range: 0xf7c00000-0xf7c3ffff(rw,non-prefetchable)
I/O Ports: 0xe000-0xefff (rw)
IRQ: 10 (no events)
Module Alias:“pci:v00001969d00001090sv00001043sd0000200Fbc02sc00i00”
Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes,need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #16 (PCI bridge)

What i already tried is to install some Pacman Firmware Packet i found googling, but somehow it wouldn`t install it. (I cant remember the error, its a bit hard since i cannot access the internet with the laptop, so I have to write this on another machine)

Hope you can help me.

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Update the system with your wired connection

Then follow this
https://forums.opensuse.org/blogs/caf4926/install-broadcom-drivers-packman-90/

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thanks for the fast answer this tutorial seems to be good, problem is that i cant set up a wired connection either :frowning:

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If it came with Ubuntu… what version?
And if you boot that said version live, does wired or wireless work?

You could take a look at this, it may help
https://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/wireless/491183-installing-manufactures-driver-broadcom-wireless-adapters-wl-driver.html

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I sadly havn’t looked up which Ubuntu Version was installed before I installed OpenSuse, but on Ubuntu Wlan worked. Thanks for the link I will look into it.

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For your wired Card:
http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/how-faq-forums/unreviewed-how-faq/485001-get-your-wired-ethernet-working-attansic-ethernet-controller-1969-1091-a.html

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thanx for that tutorial, i did anything in it except the modprobe alx since it says module not found.

Anyway it got the wired connection working, but not for long. After it worked I thought I would do a system update, before installing the the drivers for the WLAN from pacman.
After the system update I had to reboot, after doing this the wired connection was disabled again, and I coulnd`t get it running again.

Any ideas? Is there maybe a way to get the packman broadcom drivers as RPM files, so I could install them on the netbook without internet, so that at least the WLAN works, wired connection is not as important for me anyway?

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If your system is updated to the latest updates, you could install the packman .rpm’s manually

Re: wired
You may need to re-run that tutorial

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compat-wireless from the wireless repo doesn´t work with an updated kernel for the alx-modul.

Try this Repo and the alx-modul:
Index of /repositories/home:/Akoellh:/Kernelmodules/openSUSE_12.3_Update

See here:
https://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/network-internet/486604-opensuse-12-3-no-network-eth0-after-kernel-update.html#post2554220

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Download them here:
PackMan :: Informationen zum Paket broadcom-wl

You need the “broadcom-wl” package and “broadcom-wl-kmp-desktop”. Direct download links for those two:
http://packman.links2linux.de/download/broadcom-wl/1543270/broadcom-wl-6.30.223.141-2.1.x86_64.rpm
http://packman.links2linux.de/download/broadcom-wl/1543269/broadcom-wl-kmp-desktop-6.30.223.141_k3.7.10_1.16-2.1.x86_64.rpm

To install them, cd to the directory where they are located and run:

sudo rpm -i broadcom*.rpm
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Thanx guys, now it all works :slight_smile: