Hi All,
I have a HP Mini 5150, pre-installed with SLED11.
Recently I installed OpenSuSE11.0, but I decided to upgrade to OpenSuSE11.2.
The wireless lan worked in 11.0 and in SLED11, but now in 11.2 it does not. I followed the same procedure according to the instructions on the SuSE website - /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware. I also did this for 11.0, which worked.
I thought I would be able to troubleshoot, but now I am stumped. In dmesg, there is no mention of the wireless card, and hwinfo --wlan reports nothing.
Any ideas… maybe copying the configuration from SLED11 would work? How can I do this? If I understand correctly the kernel must detect the card at least.
The output of ‘dmesg | grep b43’ is… nothing
cheers
On 11/29/2009 01:06 PM, aranfitz wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I have a HP Mini 5150, pre-installed with SLED11.
> Recently I installed OpenSuSE11.0, but I decided to upgrade to
> OpenSuSE11.2.
>
> The wireless lan worked in 11.0 and in SLED11, but now in 11.2 it does
> not. I followed the same procedure according to the instructions on the
> SuSE website - /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware. I also did this for
> 11.0, which worked.
>
> I thought I would be able to troubleshoot, but now I am stumped. In
> dmesg, there is no mention of the wireless card, and hwinfo --wlan
> reports nothing.
>
> Any ideas… maybe copying the configuration from SLED11 would work?
> How can I do this? If I understand correctly the kernel must detect the
> card at least.
>
> The output of ‘dmesg | grep b43’ is… nothing
Then you do not have a Broadcom card. Please post the wireless section
of ‘/sbin/lspci -nnv’. Do NOT post all of the output. We do not care
about your other devices. If you cannot figure out which one is your
device, then post the entire output of ‘/sbin/lspci’.
ok, here goes…
I believe the first one is the wireless and the second is the ethernet.
08:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation Device [14e4:4353] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:1510]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
Memory at e8000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16]
Capabilities: <access denied>
20:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Device [11ab:436c] (rev 10)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:3632]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 28
Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16]
I/O ports at 2000 [size=256]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at 40000000 [disabled] [size=128]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: sky2
Looks like it is broadcom.
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Actually, I just looked at the /lib/firmware directory of SLED11 installation. There’s no directory(ies) b43*… search for help on 24e4:4353 leads to broadcom-wl package from packman. Trying it now.
OK, got it working. I’m now writing this reply over a very nice wireless connection (better setup with knetworkmanager than OpenSuSE11.0).
Thanks for the /sbin/lspci hint. I was trying to find exactly that information. Here’s the link to the package that I installed:
Broadcom 4353 - openSUSE Forums
Also, above I meant 14e4:4353, of course…
thanks for the support. Aran
On 11/29/2009 04:26 PM, aranfitz wrote:
>
> OK, got it working. I’m now writing this reply over a very nice wireless
> connection (better setup with knetworkmanager than OpenSuSE11.0).
>
> Thanks for the /sbin/lspci hint. I was trying to find exactly that
> information. Here’s the link to the package that I installed:
>
> ‘Broadcom 4353 - openSUSE Forums’ (http://tinyurl.com/ygjewyy)
>
> Also, above I meant 14e4:4353, of course…
Glad you got it working. I have no idea what a 14e4:4353 is. The
Broadcom driver that I am reverse engineering does not mention that PCI ID.