Bcm43xx Opensuse12.3

Lifesaving advice. This works for an Inspiron e1405 (which, based on statistics, should have suffered at least a HDD failure by now…)

Hi

Thanks for this information, this realy helped me to get the wireless up. I have only one problem after using this solution.
After a reboot, my computer forgets the connection.

If I type the code: /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware, it works again. Is there a solution for this minor problem?

Many thanks!

On 03/29/2013 07:56 AM, Thurest wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Thanks for this information, this realy helped me to get the wireless
> up. I have only one problem after using this solution.
> After a reboot, my computer forgets the connection.
>
> If I type the code: /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware, it works again.
> Is there a solution for this minor problem?

Yes. The firmware is still there, but the automatic loading of the driver is
forbidden.

You previously installed the proprietary driver wl, which blacklisted b43, ssb,
and bcma. Their change is somewhere in /etc/modprobe.d/ and is probably in
50-blacklist.conf. You will need to edit that file (as root) and remove the
blacklisting.

In the meantime, you can just ‘sudo /sbin/modprobe -v b43’.

Thanks for the quick response!

I did find the blacklist at:
sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/40-broadcom-sta.conf

Same problem, same solution.

I’m using OpenSUSE 13.1 with BCM4311 on a HP DV6000.

Thanks