My computer doesn't configure any wireless network....

I just install OpenSUSE over Windows XP. The installation was successfully completed. The performance of the laptop is perfect. However, I got an issue about my wireless networking. The windows xp could detect the wifi signal. But i don;t understand why opensuse couldn’t. I think it’s because my wireless card was blocked. I tried to install rfkill but i don’t know how. I searched all over the forum and no luck. When i scan for wireless networks. It appears as no wireless networks available! Please help…

On 07/07/2012 06:06 PM, toan bui wrote:
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> I just install OpenSUSE over Windows XP. The installation was
> successfully completed. The performance of the laptop is perfect.
> However, I got an issue about my wireless networking. The windows xp
> could detect the wifi signal. But i don;t understand why opensuse
> couldn’t. I think it’s because my wireless card was blocked. I tried to
> install rfkill but i don’t know how. I searched all over the forum and
> no luck. When i scan for wireless networks. It appears as no wireless
> networks available! Please help…

Please read the stickies in this forum. That will tell you how to let us know
what wireless device you have. You should also look at the output of the dmesg
command to see if your firmware is missing.

But how do i know if the firmware is missing?

On 07/07/2012 06:56 PM, toan bui wrote:
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> But how do i know if the firmware is missing?

Most drivers will issue an “unable to load firmware file xxxxxx” message in the
logs.

Please read this: http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/wireless/391535-my-wireless-doesnt-work-primer-what-i-should-do-next.html

And then read this: http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/wireless/410319-getting-your-wireless-work.html

Its OK to be new and not know what to do. We do however have lots of self help stuff around which you do need to look at first.

Thank You,

thanks for your reply. i type in sudo /usr/sbin/iwlist scan and it said interface doesn’t support scanning: Network is down. My hardware information is Wireless 1370 WLAN Mini-PCI card. The kernel driver: ssb

Can somebody clearly tell me how to find the missing firmware???

On 07/07/2012 08:36 PM, toan bui wrote:
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> thanks for your reply. i type in sudo /usr/sbin/iwlist scan and it said
> interface doesn’t support scanning: Network is down. My hardware
> information is Wireless 1370 WLAN Mini-PCI card. The kernel driver: ssb

That was information that you should have included in the first message.

That device is made by Broadcom, who refuses to give permission to redistribute
their firmware. For that reason, openSUSE can only distribute a program that
extracts the firmware from one of the Broadcom drivers that has the firmware
embedded inside it. There is also a script that downloads that file, and runs
the extraction program.

To use this script, you will need a network connection, and then run


sudo /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware

If you do not have a network connection in Linux, then we can give you an
alternate way to install this firmware. BTW, b43 is one of the drivers that
clearly states that the firmware is not available, and gives you a workaround.

On 07/07/2012 08:56 PM, toan bui wrote:
>
> Can somebody clearly tell me how to find the missing firmware???

Can you answer my question?

On 07/07/2012 09:31 PM, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 07/07/2012 08:56 PM, toan bui wrote:
>>
>> Can somebody clearly tell me how to find the missing firmware???
>
> Can you answer my question?

If you have internet access from Linux, then


sudo /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware

If you do NOT have internet access from Linux, you need to download the file
named below using whatever system that you have available.

http://www.lwfinger.com/b43-firmware/broadcom-wl-5.10.144.3.tar.bz2

Now copy the file to your home directory on the Linux system, and enter the
following commands:


tar xjf broadcom-wl-5.10.144.3.tar.bz2
sudo b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware broadcom-wl-5.10.144.3/linux/wl_apsta.o

If you get the response that the command b43-fwcutter is not found, then you
need to download


http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/12.1/repo/oss/suse/x86_64/b43-fwcutter-012-15.1.2.x86_64.rpm

If your Linux system is 32 bit, then you need


http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/12.1/repo/oss/suse/i586/b43-fwcutter-012-15.1.2.i586.rpm

Copy that file to your home directory, then run the command


sudo zypper install b43-fwcutter-012-15.1.2.XXX.rpm

where xxx is either x86_64 or i586. After this step is complete, you can run the
b43-fwcutter command from above.