I’m new to opensuse and when I installed opensuse 13.1 on my Dell precision laptop, everything seemed to be fine except the wireless driver. There seems to be no wireless driver for my card, which is a Dell wireless 1540 half-mini card. It appears to use a broadcom driver in Windows.
It does not appear to install correctly, when I run make it cannot find a file. I had to install make using a TP-link wireless adapter. If there is anything else I need to also install to install the driver correctly, please let me know.
The broadcom-wl driver is available as RPMs from Packman. You don’t have to compile it yourself.
Just add the Packman repo (you would need it for most multimedia stuff anyway) in YaST->Software Repositories->Add->Community Repositories.
The go into YaST->Software Management and install those two packages: broadcom-wl and broadcom-wl-kmp-desktop. The latter one depends on what kernel flavour you are using. -desktop should be the default in most cases, but it could also be kernel-default fe. Use “uname -a” to check, or just have a look in YaST which kernel- package you have installed.