Im in the process of burning my new suse disk. I’ve never really used suse before but have been using ubuntu since 8.04. are there any known issues and how hard will it be to install my wireless? my main reason from going away from ubuntu is that karmic is not really compatable with my broadcom wireless. any advice would be appreciated
Is this a DVD or CD you are going to be using, Gnome or KDE?
Wireless can be tricky, but I’m wondering why Karmic is not working but earlier versions were?
You can look at this list (it’s not comprehensive because it relies on users to fill it in)
Hardware - openSUSE
If you are using a Live CD, you will boot it to a live desktop first anyway, so see how it feels.
Remember to run the Media Check from the menu first.
cd and kde
jaunty worked out of box like champ unlike karmic. i just installed 11.2 and i have no wireless. any suggestions?
On 12/08/2009 10:26 PM, youngalumni wrote:
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> cd and kde
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> jaunty worked out of box like champ unlike karmic. i just installed
> 11.2 and i have no wireless. any suggestions?
First of all, run the command ‘/sbin/lspci -nnv | grep 14e4’. If the
line comes out “14e4:4315”, or “14e4:432X”, then you need the Broadcom
wl driver.
If you have other numbers after the 14e4, run the command
dmesg | grep b43
If it complains about missing firmware, then you need to run the command
sudo /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware
You will need a network connection for this to work. If that is not
possible, then do the following:
To install the BCM43xx firmware if you do not have a connection in
Linux, do the following:
Using any method that you have to access the Internet, download this
http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2
Then copy it into your home directory. Once you have it there, you
should enter the following:
tar xjf broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2
sudo mkdir -p /lib/firmware
sudo b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware
broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5/driver/wl_apsta_mimo.o
These three commands will skip the download step and extract the
firmware in the same way that the /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware does.