I cannot get the wireless card on a Dell Inspiron 14 to work. I am using SUSE 11.2 16 bit OS, which does not recognize the wireless card. The card is Dell 1397 mini card with a chipset BCM4315 - a broadcom wireless chip.
I would appreciate a link to a driver and firmware for the card or, if I need to use ndiswrapper a link to the appropriate 16 bit windows driver.
I doubt you will find a driver for a 16-bit OS.
But if you try 32 or 64 bit, you may have a look here:
Tech/Wireless/Truemobile ndiswrapper - DellLinuxWiki
SDB:Broadcom (BCM4306) WLAN Installation under SUSE - openSUSE
HCL/Network Adapters (Wireless) - openSUSE
HCL/Network Adapters (Wireless)/Broadcom BCM43xx - openSUSE
On 12/20/2009 09:36 PM, linuxoidoz wrote:
>
> I doubt you will find a driver for a 16-bit OS.
>
> But if you try 32 or 64 bit, you may have a look here:
> ‘Tech/Wireless/Truemobile ndiswrapper - DellLinuxWiki’
> (http://tinyurl.com/2aph5j)
> ‘SDB:Broadcom (BCM4306) WLAN Installation under SUSE - openSUSE’
> (http://tinyurl.com/yzxa3zx)
> ‘HCL/Network Adapters (Wireless) - openSUSE’
> (http://en.opensuse.org/HCL/Network_Adapters_(Wireless))
> ‘HCL/Network Adapters (Wireless)/Broadcom BCM43xx - openSUSE’
> (http://tinyurl.com/mack7b)
There are no 16-bit versions of Linux!!!
The BCM4312 with PCI ID of 14e4:4315 uses b43 in kernel 2.6.32 or the
Broadcom wl driver. Search the wireless subforum - the correct place
for this posting - for BCM4312 or 4315.
Thanks for your replies - I will try them tonight. My mind must have been in neutral talking about a 16 bit OS. I guess I divided by 2 rather than multiplying!! I meant a 64 bit.
Yeah, I was puzzled trying to figure out what kind of calculator comes with Wi-Fi… 
Thanks for your help. After the Christmas festivities I had another look at it. I found that a search in suse 11.2 for ‘broadcom’ (yast/software management) came up with firmware and driver for 43xx chips. These worked fine. A good start for the new year.