Installed 3.10 on 12.3 - How to get wireless back?

Sadly, I am plagued with the wonders of Broadcom wireless technology. This laptop is running 12.3 Gnome. I upgraded to kernel 3.10 as it fixed some issues I was having, but as I expected, I lost wireless as the driver is not… present… or something like that. I reinstalled broadcom-wl, restarted, but I had nothing.

Is there a simple way to bring back wireless on a new kernel?

On 07/19/2013 05:16 PM, JaSauders wrote:
>
> Sadly, I am plagued with the wonders of Broadcom wireless technology.
> This laptop is running 12.3 Gnome. I upgraded to kernel 3.10 as it fixed
> some issues I was having, but as I expected, I lost wireless as the
> driver is not… present… or something like that. I reinstalled
> broadcom-wl, restarted, but I had nothing.
>
> Is there a simple way to bring back wireless on a new kernel?

If you use a driver that is built into the kernel, then it is automatic.

As long as you use a closed-source, out-of-kernel driver such as wl, then it has
to be built externally for every kernel, and you need to install the one that
exactly matches your kernel. As wl is not open source, that means that openSUSE
cannot build or supply that driver. You might get it from Packman, but that repo
may not have it available for kernel 3.10. In that case, you will need to build
wl from the hybrid files available from Broadcom.

Where is the kernel you are using from?

From software.opensuse.org.

software.opensuse.org:

Show other versions >> 12.3 >> Show unstable packages >> kernel:stable

Please post:

uname -a
zypper se -si kernel broadcom

Have you added the wireless repo?
Since you’re running openSUSE 12.3, this should add the repo

zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/driver:/wireless/openSUSE_12.3/ openSUSE-12.3-Wireless

After that, you can pull down anything that’s appropriate for your hardware

zypper up

HTH,
TSU