Can't use USB wireless with Broadcom BCM43235 chipset

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I recently bought a Cisco/Linksys USB wireless adapter with a Broadcomm BCM43235 chipset. openSUSE sees the device, but doesn’t seem to know what it is. That is, if I go to a command prompt and enter ‘lsusb’, I get this line:
Bus 003 Device 008: ID 13b1:0039 Linksys AE1200 802.11bgn Wireless Adapter [Broadcom BCM43235]

However, the device doesn’t show up with ‘ifconfig’ or as a network adapter in any of the applications under Yast.

According to the openSUSE guide, the necessary kernel driver is already compiled into the kernel.
http://opensuse-guide.org/wlan.php

16.2 Recent Broadcom Chipset
The Linux kernel comes with the brcm80211 driver by default. This driver supports bcm4313, bcm43224, bcm43224, bcm43225, bcm4329, bcm4330, bcm4334, bcm43241, bcm43235 (>= rev 3), bcm43236 (>= rev 3), bcm43238 (>= rev 3), bcm43143, bcm43242.

I ran ‘grep -i brcm’ on a gunzipped copy of /proc/config.gz and this was the output:
**CONFIG_BRCMUTIL=m
CONFIG_BRCMSMAC=m

CONFIG_BRCMFMAC is not set

CONFIG_BRCM_TRACING is not set

CONFIG_BRCMDBG is not set**

If anyone has advice on what I need to do to use this wireless device, I would greatly appreciate it. I am running openSUSE 13.2 x86_64 with the
‘3.16.7-35-desktop’ kernel.

Thank you!

Will in Missouri, USA

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I don’t know if it will help. But you could try installing the broadcom-wl driver from the packman repo.

It’s a long time since I’ve done that, and I’m not running 13.2 right now. But, as I recall, there is a general package with “broadcom” as part of the name. And there is a kernel module, with “.kmp” as part of the name (and probably “desktop” as part of the name, to match your kernel).

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I don’t know if it will help. But you could try installing the broadcom-wl driver from the packman repo.

I’ve tried this, but it didn’t help.
:frowning:

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Bus 003 Device 008: ID 13b1:0039 Linksys AE1200 802.11bgn Wireless Adapter [Broadcom BCM43235]

The Chip is not supported, try another Stick.