Hello, first post here. I have some very odd problems with my fresh install of OpenSuse 12.1 Linux 3.1.9-1.4-default x86_64, KDE: I have a Lenovo v560 notebook and cant’ get wireless to work. Now, I know there are a lots of threads, searched for them, found them, and googled around a lot, but nothing seems to help, and I can’t believe this industry, that we are still having problems with Broadcoms after all this years… In fact I got issues on all my laptops all with broadcom stuff (Lenovo, Dell, HP come on!), over the time, quite a few; I won’t buy anything with Broadcom ever, from now on. I am on it for 5 days now and still nothing… I think it’s as much as a user can endure for a driver rofl.
Things i tried:
- all posts here in this forum related to BCM4313;
- 16. Wireless Driver Installation - Making Your Broadcom, Ralink etc. Wifi/Wlan Work - installs packman drivers
- the broadcom original drivers - can’t compile anything throws some error
- packman packages manual - nothing
- some other packages related to broadcom drivers, even some marked as obsolete in the yast software manager - nothing
- i wonder if it’s not a bug somewhere?
Only thing that seems to work remotely appeared after I installed the kernel-firmware package, but NetworkManager doesn’t enable the wireless, tried Traditional Method with ifup in yast, but then throws back No Networks error message and really there are none… And now i got:
OpenSuse-on-V560:/home/fakemoth # lspci
03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications AR8131 Gigabit Ethernet [1969:1063] (rev c0)
Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3956]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 44
Memory at f2400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
I/O ports at 3000 [size=128]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [48] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [58] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [6c] Vital Product Data
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [180] Device Serial Number ff-35-55-06-f0-de-f1-ff
Kernel driver in use: atl1c
04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4727] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Broadcom Corporation Device [14e4:0510]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
Memory at f2500000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [58] Vendor Specific Information: Len=78 <?>
Capabilities: [48] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [d0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 00-00-12-ff-ff-4a-ac-81
Capabilities: [16c] Power Budgeting <?>
Kernel driver in use: brcmsmac
OpenSuse-on-V560:/home/fakemoth # ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr F0:DE:F1:35:55:06
inet addr:192.168.1.9 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1330 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:785 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1692575 (1.6 Mb) TX bytes:60719 (59.2 Kb)
Interrupt:44
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:79 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:79 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:5779 (5.6 Kb) TX bytes:5779 (5.6 Kb)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr AC:81:12:4A:08:4D
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
OpenSuse-on-V560:/home/fakemoth # iwlist scan
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.
eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down
some problem here!
OpenSuse-on-V560:/home/fakemoth # rfkill list all
0: ideapad_wlan: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: ideapad_bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
2: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
3: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
4: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
Some Acer wireless? Is this supposed to be here?
I hope someone will be so kind to help me methodically investigate this issue, in a step by step process, on a noob bases, as now I realise that I don’t even remember few of the stuff i tried 
What else should i post here? Any other info?
Thank you very much for your time.
PS: Always thought that openSUSE and CentOS are the best linux distros ever. Good job, and keep it going![/size][/size][/size]