My Dell Vostro 1520’s Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card must not have been set-up correctly, as the Network Manager won’t even let me select the wireless tab. Please just explain to me, step by step, what exactly I must do to make it work! Additionally, I can’t figure out how to disable my Touchpad’s Tap to Click funtionality, which must be done if I’m to effectively use my current KDE installation of openSUSE. Please tell me what I need to do to fix these issues!
I found this on the mouse issue
openSUSE Forums - View Single Post - Disable touchpad tapping (opensuse 11.2 gnome)
You do actually have the wireless switched ON?
Yes, my wireless switch is on.
Additionally, kwrite won’t save the xorg.conf file, and I can’t seem to run it using sudo… Would gksudo, like I’ve used in Ubuntu, work?
kdesu kwrite /etc/X11/xorg.conf
from a normal user terminal
enter password when requested
I added what was shown on the page your link sent me to, but it still didn’t have any effect after restart; so I removed the initial mouse entry, but now KDE won’t even load after I restart - all I get is the command line! >:( Can somebody please tell me how I can fix this now, whilst disabling tap to click? And I really need to get my wireless connections working…
Do a console login
Login as user then become su and do
mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf xorg.conf.old
reboot
I’ve got KDE back now, but my issues still remain… Once again, how do I fix this?
I really need help here…
YaST2 says I have this:
Network Card -> Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card -> Kernel Driver: ssb
The b43 installer did not work, though dmesg|grep firmware didn’t return anything, and tap to click remains an issue; and I simply cannot deal with due to a certain disability, so will somebody please help me with this!!! >:(
Post result of
/sbin/lspci -nnk
jwesleycooper@linux-twom:~> /sbin/lspci -nnk
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub [8086:2a40] (rev 07)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02bc]
Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a42] (rev 07)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02bc]
00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a43] (rev 07)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02bc]
00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:2937] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02bc]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1a.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 [8086:2938] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02bc]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1a.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 [8086:2939] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02bc]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1a.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 [8086:293c] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02bc]
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:293e] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02bc]
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:2940] (rev 03)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 [8086:2942] (rev 03)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
00:1c.2 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 3 [8086:2944] (rev 03)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4 [8086:2946] (rev 03)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
00:1c.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 [8086:2948] (rev 03)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
00:1c.5 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 6 [8086:294a] (rev 03)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:2934] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02bc]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:2935] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02bc]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:2936] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02bc]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 [8086:293a] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02bc]
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev 93)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller [8086:2919] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02bc]
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller [8086:2929] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02bc]
Kernel driver in use: ahci
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller [8086:2930] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02bc]
08:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8168] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02bc]
Kernel driver in use: r8169
0e:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g [14e4:4315] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card [1028:000c]
Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
1a:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: O2 Micro, Inc. Device [1217:10f7] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02bc]
Kernel driver in use: ohci1394
1a:00.1 SD Host controller [0805]: O2 Micro, Inc. Device [1217:8120] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02bc]
Kernel driver in use: sdhci-pci
1a:00.2 Mass storage controller [0180]: O2 Micro, Inc. Device [1217:8130] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02bc]
So this info from /sbin/lspci -nnk is
0e:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g [14e4:4315] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card [1028:000c]
Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
Check here
HCL/Network Adapters (Wireless) - openSUSE
After cleaning up the Wireless HCL and added instruction on how to identify the Wireless chipset, now I realized how many people doesn’t make full use of it.
Well… :\
…whilst all this information is quite interesting, none of it really tells me how to solve my problems; much less the touchpad related one… :sarcastic: So what exactly must I do to actually use my wireless adapter? 
On 01/19/2010 02:26 PM, jwesleycooper wrote:
>
> …whilst all this information is quite interesting, none of it really
> tells me how to solve my problems; much less the touchpad related one…
> :sarcastic: So what exactly must I do to -actually use- my wireless
> adapter?
Go to the wireless subforum, search for 4315 (now that you told us what device
you really have) and follow the instructions. If you hadn’t used the “sarcastic”
avove, I would have provided more complete instructions!
This may help:
Broadcom.com - 802.11 Linux STA driver
Broadcom has contributed a hybrid driver for the wireless chipset. Supposedly works with the latest version of Kernel.
Goodluck
yasfc:
I’d rather not use the STA if possible… and should I try 32-bit or 64-bit?
lwfinger:
If you’d been stuck having to play “musical ethernet cables” every time you needed to actually have network access, plus having to deal with your touchpad randomly clicking all over the blasted screen whenever you try to use it, I guarantee that you’d reply sarcastically to messages that provide information which seemed to only further complicate your issue as well.
All:
For the third time, what must I do to solve both of these issues?
On 01/19/2010 05:26 PM, jwesleycooper wrote:
>
> All:
> For the third time, what_must_I_do_to_solvebothof_these_issues?
Install the Broadcon wl driver, update to a 2.6.32 kernel, or use ndiswrapper
will take care of the wireless problem.
To disable tapping, search the forums for that topic.
Well,
I used 64bit version, since I installed OpenSuse 11.2 64bit version on my Dell Inspiron 1545 that has Intel Dual Core processor.
It would depend on what OS version you have in your PC, I would think.
Besides, in what manner you would have problem with STA, may I ask?
Where should I create the directory to which I must untar the driver, or does it matter?