I installed the b43 firmware using Yast, as was explained to me above.
In the Manage Connections box the Wireless tab is greyed out i.e. no wireless connections.
The ‘lsmod | grep b43’ command produces the following output:
mac80211 560282 1 b43
cfg80211 456679 2 b43,mac80211
bcma 45062 1 b43
ssb 65183 2 b43,b44
mmc_core 114867 4 b43,sdhci_pci,sdhci,ssb
pcmcia 55367 2 b43,ssb
After running the command ‘sudo /sbin/modprobe -v b43’ the command ‘/etc/sbin/iwconfig’ produces an error message: No such file or directory.
I don’t know how to check the output of dmesg for any errors - I’ve only been using Linux for a couple of days.