I have a Dell xps 1530 on the newest version of SUSE. I don’t know how to connect to my wireless router, but the internet connection definately works when wired through ethernet. I also don’t know how to get my touchpad working correctly. I don’t know how to get the drivers or if they are even already installed. I am a complete noob, so if someone has a link that walks me through this that would be greatly appreciated.
Check Yast first of all, it your control center
Yast - Network Devices - Network settings
Yast - Hardware - Mouse Model
There may be help here
Additional YaST Package Repositories - openSUSE
I checked in the YaST control center and under network settings I only see:
Ethernet Network Card DHCP
and under mouse model I see
Mouse 1 i believe is the actual mouse that I have plugged in
Mouse 2 deactivated
Mouse 3 is the touchpad and it says Mouse: ALPS Touchpad
If you highlight: ALPS Touchpad
edit
can you configure it?
What is your wireless device that you have built in to your laptop?
The only option I have for the touchpad is “change” and that allows me to change the type of mouse it is. As for the wireless card, it is a Broadcom Dell Wireless 1395 WLAN mini card. Internal PCI I believe.
ChunkyLover wrote:
> The only option I have for the touchpad is “change” and that allows me
> to change the type of mouse it is. As for the wireless card, it is a
> Broadcom Dell Wireless 1395 WLAN mini card. Internal PCI I believe.
Your wireless will be supported as soon as you install the firmware, which
cannot be distributed with openSUSE.
While connected with your wired connection, issue the command
sudo /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware
That will install the firmware - then it should work.
Larry
I ran the command and it installed the firmware, but the wireless card did not show up under the YaST network settings. I would also like to thank you guys for being patient and helping a new user out.
I just read that I might need the iwlwifi package, but I don’t know how to get it. If that sounds right, let me know.
caf4926 wrote:
> is it here
> ‘Intel® Wireless WiFi Link drivers for Linux*’
> (http://intellinuxwireless.org/)
What does ‘/sbin/lspci -nnv’ have to say about your wireless device? That will
tell us what device you have.
BTW, you should go to the wireless subforum of networking and read the stickies
there. That tells you how to identify your wireless device and provide the
information we need.
Larry
That command told me
0b:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4310 USB Controller [14e4:4315] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:000b]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 7
Memory at f9efc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16]
Capabilities: <access denied>
which I believe is my wireless network card.[/size]