Help a newb out with his wireless

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#1

I’m one day into openSUSE 11.1 and I would love to say I am enjoying it thuroughly except I cant seem to get my wireless working.

this is what I get when I go into terminal and do ‘/sbin/lspci’:
linux-xp2u:~ # /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 04)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 04)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 04)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 04)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 04)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 04)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 04)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 04)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f4)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 04)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon HD 3650
01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RV635 Audio device [Radeon HD 3600 Series]
03:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05)
03:01.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22)
03:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12)
03:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 12)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5784M Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 10)
0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)

and when i do ‘/sbin/lspci -n’:
00:00.0 0600: 8086:2a00 (rev 03)
00:01.0 0604: 8086:2a01 (rev 03)
00:1a.0 0c03: 8086:2834 (rev 04)
00:1a.1 0c03: 8086:2835 (rev 04)
00:1a.7 0c03: 8086:283a (rev 04)
00:1b.0 0403: 8086:284b (rev 04)
00:1c.0 0604: 8086:283f (rev 04)
00:1c.1 0604: 8086:2841 (rev 04)
00:1c.3 0604: 8086:2845 (rev 04)
00:1c.5 0604: 8086:2849 (rev 04)
00:1d.0 0c03: 8086:2830 (rev 04)
00:1d.1 0c03: 8086:2831 (rev 04)
00:1d.2 0c03: 8086:2832 (rev 04)
00:1d.7 0c03: 8086:2836 (rev 04)
00:1e.0 0604: 8086:2448 (rev f4)
00:1f.0 0601: 8086:2815 (rev 04)
00:1f.2 0106: 8086:2829 (rev 04)
00:1f.3 0c05: 8086:283e (rev 04)
01:00.0 0300: 1002:9591
01:00.1 0403: 1002:aa20
03:01.0 0c00: 1180:0832 (rev 05)
03:01.1 0805: 1180:0822 (rev 22)
03:01.2 0880: 1180:0592 (rev 12)
03:01.3 0880: 1180:0852 (rev 12)
09:00.0 0200: 14e4:1698 (rev 10)
0c:00.0 0280: 14e4:4315 (rev 01)

So far so good.

Then I do '/usr/sbin/iwgonfig’and get this:

lo no wireless extensions
eth0 no wireless extensions

thats about the long and short of it…can anybody help me out here?

thanks in advance

~Eric

#2 
0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)

0c:00.0 0280: **14e4:4315** (rev 01)

Use the forum’s search and search for 14e4:4315, there have been several threads concerning this adapter over the last few weeks.

#3

Hi Mstrtwstr; welcome to the OpenSuse forums; we hope you will enjoy using OpenSuse;

in this stickie;

BCM4312 Opensuse 11.1 - openSUSE Forums

in post #2, lwfinger says

ucfandrew wrote:
>
> 05:00.0 0280: 14e4:4315 (rev 01)

The 4315 device is not supported by the open-source b43 driver. You
need to use ndiswrapper with the Windows driver, or the Broadcom wl
hybrid driver. I think the latter is available through the packman repo.

Larry

and #12 confirmed this:

If the device has the PCI-ID

14e4:4315

you have to use the proprietary drivers from broadcom (available from packman as stated before) or ndiswrapper and windows drivers.

I think this is the link to packman

PackMan :: Package details for broadcom-wl

I hope I have pointed you in the right direction: I am not a wireless expert, but trying to understand some of the issues

You may well need to check out which kernel you are using

Take a look at output of “uname -r” and then choose the correct package to install.

this comes in post #8 from this current thread in the wireless forum

http://forums.opensuse.org/network-internet/wireless/411522-airlink101-awlh6070-rt2860.html

Take a look at output of “uname -r”
means open a terminal and type in

uname -r

that should help you identify the correct package

#4

wireless works!!!

thanks for all the help guys!!!

now if i could just get youtube working lol

#5

well done; enjoy;

post on the Applications forum about YouTube;

are you running 64bit or 32 bit Suse? let folks know when you ask about YouTube; I rather think some flash application may be involved;