just installed open suse on my laptop with a single boot operating system. When I tried to use my broadcom wireless adapter card which is built into my laptop it did not appear to be configured with KWIFIMANAGER. I have never used a Linux operating system before and I have already been told that I am stupid for not making it a dual boot.
Can anybody send me a tutorial on how to get it to work then I will be thankful. If you could please find a video tutorial.
First, we need to know what Broadcom card you have. In a terminal, run
the command ‘/sbin/lspci -nnv’ and post the first two lines from the
section that describes your wireless.
Note, kwifimanager is not the best way to control your device as long
as you are running a recent version of openSUSE. Please tell us which
one you have and whether you are using KDE or Gnome.
Larry
00:00.0 Host bridge [Class 0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub [8086:2a00] (rev 0c)
aafreund90 wrote:
> 00:00.0 Host bridge [Class 0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile
> PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub [8086:2a00] (rev 0c)
Those are the first two lines of the lspci output. I asked for the
first two lines THAT DESCRIBE THE BROADCOM DEVICE.
Larry
0c:00.0 Network controller [Class 0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4310 USB Controller [14e4:4315] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Unknown device [1028:000b]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10
Memory at fe8fc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16]
Capabilities: <access denied>[/size]
aafreund90 wrote:
> 0c:00.0 Network controller [Class 0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4310
> USB Controller [14e4:4315] (rev 01)
> Subsystem: Dell Unknown device [1028:000b]
> Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10
> Memory at fe8fc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16]
> Capabilities: <access denied>
That is what we needed to know.
The BCM4310 USB device, which is not USB, is not yet supported by the
b43 driver. The reverse engineering is currently in progress.
To use your wireless, you will need either (1) ndiswrapper and the
Windows driver, or (2) the hybrid driver from Broadcom. If you look at
past entries in this forum, you will see how to implement one or
another of those solutions.
Larry
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