dell wireless 1397 wlan mini card opensuse 13.2

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Hello
I have installed broadcom-wl and broadcom-wl-kmp-desktop drivers but wireless doesn’t seem to be active https://forums.opensuse.org/images/smiliesnew/crying.png Please assist…

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On Thu 16 Apr 2015 03:06:01 AM CDT, Trulala82 wrote:

Hello
I have installed broadcom-wl and broadcom-wl-kmp-desktop drivers but
wireless doesn’t seem to be active [image:
https://forums.opensuse.org/images/smiliesnew/crying.png] Please
assist…

Hi
Did you restart the system? Install the package rfkill and check it’s
not blocked…


su -
zypper in rfkill
rfkill list

Note you either need the install medium (if it’s active) or an internet
connection for the rfkill package.

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Hi
Problem is in installing driver broadcom-wl - I’m getting error

linux-qs1d:/home/tsiskreli # zypper in broadcom-wl broadcom-wl-kmp-desktop
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Resolving package dependencies...
2 Problems:
Problem: nothing provides kernel-uname-r = 3.16.7-13-desktop needed by broadcom-wl-kmp-desktop-6.30.223.248_k3.16.7_13-2.3.x86_64
Problem: nothing provides kernel-uname-r = 3.16.7-13-desktop needed by broadcom-wl-kmp-desktop-6.30.223.248_k3.16.7_13-2.3.x86_64

Problem: nothing provides kernel-uname-r = 3.16.7-13-desktop needed by broadcom-wl-kmp-desktop-6.30.223.248_k3.16.7_13-2.3.x86_64
 Solution 1: do not install broadcom-wl-kmp-desktop-6.30.223.248_k3.16.7_13-2.3.x86_64
 Solution 2: break broadcom-wl-kmp-desktop-6.30.223.248_k3.16.7_13-2.3.x86_64 by ignoring some of its dependencies

Choose from above solutions by number or skip, retry or cancel [1/2/s/r/c] (c):

What about kernel-uname-r???

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Well, kernel 3.16.7-13 was released as update two days ago, but has been revoked because of an incompatibility.

Unfortunately Packman now only has broadcom-wl for this not available kernel in the repo.

I’m afraid you have to wait until the next kernel update (should be released in the next days) to be able to install/use broadcom-wl from Packman.

You might want to tell the Packman maintainers about the problem though, so that they rebuild it for the older kernel:
http://lists.links2linux.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/packman
Depending on the wireless device you have, you might even get it to work with the open source drivers (and without broadcom-wl).
Which one is it?

/sbin/lspci -nnk

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**** :confused: My wireless devise is given in the header… for a moment it start working but after reboot again doesn’t work :confused:

If I will find older broadcom-wl it might help? because curent was released on 13-th April…

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Yes, but what exact chip is it?
The command I gave you should tell.

If I will find older broadcom-wl it might help? because curent was released on 13-th April…

Yes, if you find one matching your kernel versions.

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Network controller [0280]/: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-card [1028:000c]
Kernel modules: ssb

Didn’t find anything yet :frowning: looks packman removes old rpms :frowning:

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This should actually work without broadcom-wl, but you need to install the corresponding firmware, i.e. the package b43-firmware.

And you should remove braodcom-wl if you have it installed, as that blocks/disables the b43 driver.

Didn’t find anything yet :frowning: looks packman removes old rpms :frowning:

Yes.

You could of course also download the .src.rpm and build it yourself.

rpmbuild --rebuild xxx.src.rpm
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Hi with firmware only works!!! thank you!