Driver not working

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I’m a new user to OpenSUSE and recently switched from Ubuntu. But I’m finding it difficult to get my wireless card working. It’s a Dell Wireless 1395 Wlan Mini card, but works with a broadcom driver(Ethernet card is a broadcom).

Edit: Looks like it’s a BCM4312 according to the firewall.

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On 03/07/2011 09:36 PM, DarkSnake-Kobra wrote:
>
> I’m a new user to OpenSUSE and recently switched from Ubuntu. But I’m
> finding it difficult to get my wireless card working. It’s a Dell
> Wireless 1395 Wlan Mini card, but works with a broadcom driver(Ethernet
> card is a broadcom).

Have you installed the firmware? To do that with an Internet connection,


sudo /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware
sudo /sbin/modprobe -rv b43
sudo /sbin/modprobe -v b43

You need to do this because Broadcom refuses to allow an open license for their
firmware, thus openSUSE cannot include it with the distribution.

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Thanks it’s working now.:slight_smile: