I’m using an HP Compaq 6175b laptop.
I am running openSUSE 12.3, GNOME v3.6.2, 64-bit.
My wireless is a PCI device:
30:00.0 Network Controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11a/b/g (rev 02)
30:00.0 0280: 1434:4312 (rev 02)
Under my network settings there is no mention of wireless, and I really have no idea what to do. I’ve tried to follow most guides I’ve found on getting it to work, but with no luck (including lwfinger’s guide on getting broadcom firmware for b43)
Thanks in advance 
On 04/27/2013 09:06 AM, species9 wrote:
>
> I’m using an HP Compaq 6175b laptop.
> I am running openSUSE 12.3, GNOME v3.6.2, 64-bit.
> My wireless is a PCI device:
> 30:00.0 Network Controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11a/b/g
> (rev 02)
> 30:00.0 0280: 1434:4312 (rev 02)
> Under my network settings there is no mention of wireless, and I really
> have no idea what to do. I’ve tried to follow most guides I’ve found on
> getting it to work, but with no luck (including lwfinger’s guide on
> getting broadcom firmware for b43)
> Thanks in advance
Have you ever tried using wl? If so, it blacklisted ssb and b43. You can test
this by the command ‘sudo /sbin/modprobe -v b43’. If that gives you wireless,
then the problem is blacklisting.
Are there files in /lib/firmware/b43/? If not, you failed in installing the
firmware. You should see a message that the driver could not load firmware in
the output of the dmesg command.
Thank you so much! The problem was that it hadn’t installed correctly the first time.
I had to use:
cd bcm43xx_firmware
sudo ./install_bcm43xx_firmware_no_net
Instead of just:
sudo bcm43xx_firmware/install_bcm43xx_firmware_no_net
To get it to work properly. Thanks again for your help - it would have taken me ages to get my wireless working otherwise!
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