I installed OpenSuse 13.1 after trashing my hard drive and replacing it in my Dell Inspiron M5010 laptop. The install on the new HD was good and the laptop worked almost as before including the Wlan connection through a Broadcom which configured with network manager easily (see below for more info on the controller).
This morning for no apparent reason my connection dropped (on the laptop not the router) and network manager now says “wlan unavailable” and that the it is blocked by the hardware. Also the “enable wireless” box is grey and can’t be checked. I checked around generally but not sure which way to go with this.
It may not be relevant bur before I noticed the broken connection I installed Photorec and also haven’t been able to configure the wireless printer.I have a wired connection at the moment but really want to get the wireless working again.
On 03/10/2014 07:06 AM, terpic wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I installed OpenSuse 13.1 after trashing my hard drive and replacing it
> in my Dell Inspiron M5010 laptop. The install on the new HD was good and
> the laptop worked almost as before including the Wlan connection through
> a Broadcom which configured with network manager easily (see below for
> more info on the controller).
>
> This morning for no apparent reason my connection dropped (on the laptop
> not the router) and network manager now says “wlan unavailable” and that
> the it is blocked by the hardware. Also the “enable wireless” box is
> grey and can’t be checked. I checked around generally but not sure which
> way to go with this.
>
> It may not be relevant bur before I noticed the broken connection I
> installed Photorec and also haven’t been able to configure the wireless
> printer.I have a wired connection at the moment but really want to get
> the wireless working again.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
>
>
> 7: PCI 400.0: 0282 WLAN controller
> [Created at pci.319]
> Unique ID: YVtp.IzQij1EJm+D
> Parent ID: 8otl.kR1n3y5IO_4
> SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:04.0/0000:04:00.0
> SysFS BusID: 0000:04:00.0
> Hardware Class: network
> Model: “Broadcom WLAN controller”
> Vendor: pci 0x14e4 “Broadcom”
> Device: pci 0x4727
> SubVendor: pci 0x1028 “Dell”
> SubDevice: pci 0x0013
> Revision: 0x01
> Driver: “bcma-pci-bridge”
> Driver Modules: “bcma”
> Device File: wlp4s0
> Features: WLAN
> Memory Range: 0xfea00000-0xfea03fff (rw,non-prefetchable)
> IRQ: 16 (519 events)
> HW Address: ec:55:f9:4d:65:46
> Link detected: no
> WLAN channels: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
> WLAN frequencies: 2.412 2.417 2.422 2.427 2.432 2.437 2.442 2.447
> 2.452 2.457 2.462 2.467 2.472
> WLAN encryption modes: WEP40 WEP104 TKIP CCMP
> WLAN authentication modes: open sharedkey wpa-psk wpa-eap
> Module Alias: “pci:v000014E4d00004727sv00001028sd00000013bc02sc80i00”
> Driver Info #0:
> Driver Status: bcma is active
> Driver Activation Cmd: “modprobe bcma”
> Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
> Attached to: #17 (PCI bridge)