I am running Tumbleweed on my desktop and I find that I cannot use the wlan interface. It’s not there.
lspci -vnn | grep Network 16:04:07
76:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation I211 Gigabit Network Connection [8086:1539] (rev 03)
78:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [14e4:43a0] (rev 03)
So I have wlan hardware.
inxi -n 16:08:01
Network:
Device-1: Intel Ethernet I218-V driver: e1000e
IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 34:97:f6:8b:35:88
Device-2: Intel I211 Gigabit Network driver: igb
IF: enp118s0 state: down mac: 34:97:f6:8b:35:87
Device-3: Broadcom BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter driver: N/A
IF-ID-1: docker0 state: down mac: 02:42:b1:dd:c1:c7
But driver not loaded?
However…
zypper se broadcom 16:09:45
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
S | Name | Summary | Type
---+-------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+-----------
i+ | broadcom-wl | Wireless driver for Broadcom 43xx series of chips | package
| broadcom-wl | Wireless driver for Broadcom 43xx series of chips | srcpackage
| broadcom-wl-debugsource | Debug sources for package broadcom-wl | package
i | broadcom-wl-kmp-default | Wireless driver for Broadcom 43xx series of chips | package
| broadcom-wl-kmp-default-debuginfo | Debug information for package broadcom-wl-kmp-default | package
| broadcom-wl-kmp-pae | Wireless driver for Broadcom 43xx series of chips | package
| broadcom-wl-kmp-pae-debuginfo | Debug information for package broadcom-wl-kmp-pae | package
| libfprint-2-tod1-broadcom | Proprietary driver for the Broadcom fingerprint reader | package
| libfprint-2-tod1-broadcom | Proprietary driver for the Broadcom fingerprint reader | srcpackage
| libfprint-2-tod1-broadcom-debuginfo | Debug information for package libfprint-2-tod1-broadcom | package
Driver is installed.
How can I force it to be compiled and loaded? Removing and reinstalling doesn’t change anything.
It’s not like I depend on it, as the desktop is normally used with wired gbit ethernet. But wlan is present, so should work according to my inner nerd.
Suggestions?