Laptop Acer Aspire & Wifi card not active

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#1

Hello All,
I have a Laptop PC Acer Aspire 1710 and OpenSuse 11.2 installed on it
I tried to setup my wifi card but it doesn’t work
I checked the log system log file.
Apparently the driver cannot be loaded :

<6> 8.556483] b43-pci-bridge 0000:03:03.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
<6> 8.560204] ssb: Sonics Silicon Backplane found on PCI device 0000:03:03.0
<6> 8.581966] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
<6> 8.618439] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4306 WLAN found (core revision 5)
<7> 8.823100] phy0: Selected rate control algorithm ‘minstrel’
<6> 8.823499] Broadcom 43xx driver loaded Features: PML, Firmware-ID: FW13 ]
<6> 8.944035] intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 54906 usecs (2646 samples)
<6> 8.944040] intel8x0: clocking to 48000
<6> 8.944572] Intel ICH Modem 0000:00:1f.6: PCI INT B -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17

What can I do to active my wifi card ?
Thanks by advance for your help

#2

What makes you think the driver is not loaded. It says loaded, no error.

Please post output of:
ip addr

Do you use Gnome or KDE4?
Do you have a wired connection available as well?

#3

You may not have the correct firmware installed for your wireless card. You can check out b43 - Linux Wireless this is where I found the correct firmware downloads for my broadcom card. I’m using a BCM4306 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller.

#4

Thanks for your help

Do you use Gnome or KDE4?
I use Gnome 2.28.0
Do you have a wired connection available as well?
Yes I have an other PC winth Windows Vista and it’s connected by wifi ti Internet

I have restriction on mac adress so added my linux laptop mac adrress to the list

#5

I’m using KDE 4.3.1 with tradition ifup method along with ip masquerading. I have both wireless and wired connections of which both are being used.