I have a Dell Inspiron 1550 with a BroadCom 4312 Wireless Chipset. It doesn’t seem to know about my wireless router to the internet. The computer internet connection works fine when booted to Windows 7. Also when plugged into my wired connection it works fine. It’s just the wireless which doesn’t work. So, I’m trying to get the wireless to work in openSUSE 11.2.
I read the HCL Wireless Routers documentation and it appears I need to install the firmware for the b43/b43legacy legacy drivers. I installed the firmware. But where do I get the drivers from?
“lspci -vnn” tells me the that the broadcom is using the kernel driver b43-pci-bridge. Does that mean the drivers are already installed?
What else do i need to configure in order to get my wireless working under openSUSE 11.2. I need a detailed explanation because most of this networking stuff is pretty difficult to comprehend.
OK.
II. My Kernel Driver is ssb
III. “dmesg | grep firmware” returns nothing. (probably because I installed the b43/b43legacy firmware already)
Other relevant stuff in the boot.msg…
b43-phy0 ERROR : FOUND UNSUPPORTED PHY (Analog 6 Type 5 Revision 1)
b43: probe of ssb0:0 failed with error -95
Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [Features: PML, Firmware ID: FW13]
IV. “sudo /usr/sbin/iwlist scan” returns…
lo interface doesn’t support scanning
eth0 interface doesn’t support scanning
pan0 interface doesn’t support scanning
So Where do i go from here?
To third posting of the thread I linked you.
I have my doubts about that, loaded , yes, suitable, probably not.
Sorry, but I only see 1 posting in your previous message?
That’s only 1 posting. And I’ve been through that thread, which is why I posted in the format II / III / IV so you could see the results of my test, and where I got up to.
OK. I get it. You want me to d/l the script and run it.
Yes, the one on the THIRD posting as I said before, don’t know what is so difficult to understand.
And BTW, before posting back READ the outputs of this script on what to do and/or HOW to provide information.
I have a pretty good idea, what might be the problem, but I am not keen on guessing without any real useful information.
How do I find the WLAN SSID?
ok. It’s 23:45 here. Got to go to bed. Will continue in the morning after I find out what my WLAN SSID is.
On 05/04/2010 10:56 AM, stubble wrote:
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> ok. It’s 23:45 here. Got to go to bed. Will continue in the morning
> after I find out what my WLAN SSID is.
If you go to the HCL at
http://en.opensuse.org/HCL/Network_Adapters_(Wireless) and look at
the Broadcom section, you will see that it clearly states that for
openSUSE 11.2, you can use b43 (and ssb) ONLY FOR KERNEL 2.6.32 OR
LATER, otherwise you need to use wl.
Once you get the correct driver installed, you can use ‘sudo
/usr/sbin/iwlist scan’ to see your AP’s SSID.
On 05/04/10 12:56, stubble wrote:
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> I have a Dell Inspiron 1550 with a BroadCom 4312 Wireless Chipset. It
> doesn’t seem to know about my wireless router to the internet. The
> computer internet connection works fine when booted to Windows 7. Also
> when plugged into my wired connection it works fine. It’s just the
> wireless which doesn’t work. So, I’m trying to get the wireless to work
> in openSUSE 11.2.
With a recently (last week) purchased Latitude D630 with an BCM4311 chipset
is was, in retrospect, very easy.
11.2 has an ‘install_bcm43xx_firmware’ script that does the hard work. Just
make sure the wired connection sees the Internet before you run it.
I ran it as root, and then I was able to set the wlan0 properties in YaST
(Network Devices -> Network Settings -> Next).
Set Operating Mode to Managed,
Authentication Mode to WPA-PSK
Choose the Key Input Type and set the Encryption Key
The SSID is a “Network Name” you can setup in your wireless router.
Of course these settings must be the same as in the wireless router.
One hitch I ran into was that the wired connection already had an address
in the same network range as the wlan, so the routing was messed up.
I set the Start Mode to “When Connected” for eth0 and then it was all good.
Theo
On 05/04/2010 03:28 PM, LittleRedRooster wrote:
> On 05/04/10 12:56, stubble wrote:
>>
>> I have a Dell Inspiron 1550 with a BroadCom 4312 Wireless Chipset. It
>> doesn’t seem to know about my wireless router to the internet. The
>> computer internet connection works fine when booted to Windows 7. Also
>> when plugged into my wired connection it works fine. It’s just the
>> wireless which doesn’t work. So, I’m trying to get the wireless to work
>> in openSUSE 11.2.
>
> With a recently (last week) purchased Latitude D630 with an BCM4311 chipset
> is was, in retrospect, very easy.
> 11.2 has an ‘install_bcm43xx_firmware’ script that does the hard work. Just
> make sure the wired connection sees the Internet before you run it.
> I ran it as root, and then I was able to set the wlan0 properties in YaST
> (Network Devices -> Network Settings -> Next).
> Set Operating Mode to Managed,
> Authentication Mode to WPA-PSK
> Choose the Key Input Type and set the Encryption Key
> The SSID is a “Network Name” you can setup in your wireless router.
> Of course these settings must be the same as in the wireless router.
>
> One hitch I ran into was that the wired connection already had an address
> in the same network range as the wlan, so the routing was messed up.
> I set the Start Mode to “When Connected” for eth0 and then it was all good.
Your report is interesting, but not relevant to a BCM4312 on openSUSE
11.2. With 11.3, the BCM4312 will work the same way as the BCM4311 does
on 11.2.
@lwfinger
you will see that it clearly states that for
openSUSE 11.2, you can use b43 (and ssb) ONLY FOR KERNEL 2.6.32 OR
LATER, otherwise you need to use wl.
Sorry. I only installed and updated my system yesterday. So I don’t have the correct kernel 2.6.31.12? How do I upgrade to the 2.6.32 kernel? or to 11.3?
On 05/04/2010 05:16 PM, stubble wrote:
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> @lwfinger
>> you will see that it clearly states that for
>> openSUSE 11.2, you can use b43 (and ssb) ONLY FOR KERNEL 2.6.32 OR
>> LATER, otherwise you need to use wl.
>
> Sorry. But I don’t see any reference to 2.6.32 under Broadcom. I only
> installed and updated my system yesterday. So I don’t have the correct
> kernel 2.6.31.12? How do I upgrade to the 2.6.32 kernel?
The section describing your device is extracted below:
BCM4312 (PCI ID 4315) 802.11b/g 11.2 wl/compat-
wireless/
b43(2.6.32 and above
only)
11.3 b43
It looks better in the wiki, but you can see the information. You can
install the compat-wireless package from the Packman repo, the wl
package, or you can get the 2.6.34 kernel from the Factory repo.
ok. After installing the packman drivers and rebooting. I’m getting somewhere. Will report back later.
OK. I’ve got the wireless icon now showing up in my taskbar. But it says “not connected”. How to get it to connect?
please idnore this message.
OK. After running sudo /usr/sbin/iwlist/scan I get something on eth1…
Cell 01 - Address 00:00:00:00:00 (altered by me)
ESSID: stupid
Mode: Managed
etc etc
Is this Address my WLAN SSID or is it stupid?