I’m new to open suse however, I have been using Linux 10 and some ubuntu 11.04. I had the same problem with ubuntu 11.04 but I found a fix for it using the terminal with the b43 driver. This open suse is a little bit different in what commands to use or am I wrong. Does anyone have any idea on how fix the wireless, it does not even turn on.
On 06/30/2011 05:36 PM, MickeyWilson5 wrote:
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> I’m new to open suse however, I have been using Linux 10 and some ubuntu
> 11.04. I had the same problem with ubuntu 11.04 but I found a fix for it
> using the terminal with the b43 driver. This open suse is a little bit
> different in what commands to use or am I wrong. Does anyone have any
> idea on how fix the wireless, it does not even turn on.
It is likely that you need to install the firmware. Without it, the hardware
does not do much - kind of like a computer with an erased hard drive.
From a terminal, issue the command ‘dmesg | grep firmware’ to confirm my
diagnosis. If you have a network connection from a wire, issue the following
commands:
sudo /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware
sudo /sbin/modprobe -r b43
sudo /sbin/modprobe b43
At this point, you should see the wireless device with an ‘/usr/sbin/iwconfig’
command, and see your access point with ‘sudo /usr/sbin/iwlist scan’. If not,
check your wireless kill switch.
Thank you for your reply,
I did exactly as you said, the firmware was downloaded however, the last 2 commands did not do anything so i tried to check my kill switch but i don’t know the command for that on opensuse.
I just tried changing the network manager and what do you know it worked…now i just need to try and figure out why videos are not working
Thanks
Thanks again, I was having some trouble with openSUSE so i decided to reinstall it…well wifi still was not working…so I changed the network manager and well that did not work…so i did exactly as you stated and WOW it worked…I thank you very much.