need driver for Broadcom wireless card/Dell Inspiron 1150

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Wireless card is: Broadcom BCM4306KFB installed in Dell laptop:
Inspiron 1150
need driver or help getting Linux openSUSE 11.1-KDE4 to recognize wireless card.
Thanks:(

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On 01/18/2010 09:46 AM, tjd1041 wrote:
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> Wireless card is: Broadcom BCM4306KFB installed in Dell laptop:
> Inspiron 1150
> need driver or help getting Linux openSUSE 11.1-KDE4 to recognize
> wireless card.

You do not need a driver, you need firmware. Check the output of the commanf

dmesg | grep b43

If you have Internet access while in Linux, you should do the following:

sudo /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware

If no access in Linux, look at the 3rd stickie in this forum. One of the
postings has a prescription for getting the correct file.

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How do I run a command?

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On 01/18/2010 12:36 PM, tjd1041 wrote:
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> How do I run a command?

You need to open a terminal and type it.

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typed in command into the terminal…came up no such file or directory…any other idea’s?
Thanks

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On 01/19/2010 12:16 PM, tjd1041 wrote:
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> typed in command into the terminal…came up no such file or
> directory…any other idea’s?
> Thanks

Which command - I gave you two to try.

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I typed into the terminal:
sudo/usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware…no such file found

I was able to connect to the internet using etho connection
Tom

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On 01/20/2010 12:26 PM, tjd1041 wrote:
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> I typed into the terminal:
> sudo/usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware…no such file found
>
> I was able to connect to the internet using etho connection

Install the b43-fwcutter package. Then the above script will be found and will
install the firmware.