Getting my dell 10v to have wireless connection...problem

Hello,
I have a dell mini 10v netbook and I have a problem getting wireless onto it. At first I followed openSUSE Lizards » openSUSE 11.2 on Dell Mini 10v step by step with a wired connection directly plugged into the netbook and it all worked out.

However I had to reformat and start over. but this time I dont have access to a wired connection. Can someone help me translate the terminal codes in the link above into a way I can do without the internet (I have another computer with Windows)

here’s the technical part

**/sbin/lspci -nnk
**
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g [14e4:4315] (rev 01)

04:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 02)


david@linux-vb66:/media> /sbin/lspci -nn |grep -i net

03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g [14e4:4315] (rev 01)

04:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 02)

**uname -a**

Linux linux-vb66 2.6.31.5-0.1-default #1 SMP 2009-10-26 15:49:03 +0100 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

**
cat /etc/SuSE-release**

openSUSE 11.2 (i586)

VERSION = 11.2

my last topic related to this: How to install drivers without the internet? - openSUSE Forums
Im very new to linux so sorry if I ask a lot of simple questions!

Thanks in advance guys!

Are you saying you don’t have an internet connection for this? We need to tell you what to download?

Post result of this:

rpm -qa | grep broadcom

Solved!
I guess it had something to do with b43 and ssb <–?

How to install drivers without the internet? - Page 2 - openSUSE Forums

thanks for the help

No problem
Well done;)

I have a similar problem with mini-10, partial wireless access:

lsmod shows wl is loaded (and b43 and ssb are not)
ifconfig shows a valid IP address, etc. for eth1
(eth0 is unplugged LAN)
router log shows successful dialog between router and pc

but,

…>ping (router IP address)

yields (router IP address) unreachable…full stop.
Stopped firewall on pc…didn’t help.

I would appreciate any help on this problem.

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