How do I enable my wireless card in open Suse 11.2?

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I have a Dell studio 15. Not sure how to enable my wireless card to use at WIFI spots. Always used wired connections so for.

help appreciated.

:wink:

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On 01/08/2010 08:26 PM, bperrotta wrote:
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> I have a Dell studio 15. Not sure how to enable my wireless card to use
> at WIFI spots. Always used wired connections so for.
>
> help appreciated.

You are in the wrong forum. Go to the wireless forum, read the stickies, and
post the IDs for your wireless card.

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Can you provide the output of an: /sbin/lspci |grep -i net

On my Dell Studio 1737 I have a BCM4322 chipset and just have to install the broadcom-wl package from packman.

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Here is the output

linux-bma3:~ # /sbin/lspci |grep -i net
04:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless WiFi Link 5100
08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5784M Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 10):sarcastic:

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I installed that paackage via yast now where do I go to turn on off my wireless card and configure it?:expressionless:

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I have no idea how to configure my network card.
knetwork manager is also trying to start.