new Dell E6400 wifi setup questions

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I have a brand new Dell E6400 that I am trying to connect to a wireless router. From what I have seen from the sticky threads, this info should be helpful:

  • From YaST->Hardware->Hardware->Network Card -> Wireless 1397 WLAN minicard

  • It does not have a “Kernel Driver” entry in the list, the vendor is listed as Broadcom

  • there is no line in the dmesg output that indicates I need a firmware upgrade

  • running /usr/sbin/iwlist scan reports:
    lo Interface doesn’t support scanning
    eth0 Interface doesn’t support scanning
    pan0 Interface doesn’t support scanning

  • running iwconfig reports:
    lo no wireless extensions
    eth0 no wireless extensions
    pan0 no wireless extensions

The Broadcom entries from lsusb is: 0c:00.0 and from lsusb -n is 14e4:4315

OpenSuse version 11.1

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

:so:

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SpottedOwl wrote:
> I have a brand new Dell E6400 that I am trying to connect to a wireless
> router. From what I have seen from the sticky threads, this info should
> be helpful:
>
> * From YaST->Hardware->Hardware->Network Card -> Wireless 1397 WLAN
> minicard
> * It does not have a “Kernel Driver” entry in the list, the vendor is
> listed as Broadcom
> * there is no line in the dmesg output that indicates I need a firmware
> upgrade
> * running /usr/sbin/iwlist scan reports:
> lo Interface doesn’t support scanning
> eth0 Interface doesn’t support scanning
> pan0 Interface doesn’t support scanning
>
> * running iwconfig reports:
> lo no wireless extensions
> eth0 no wireless extensions
> pan0 no wireless extensions
>
> The Broadcom entries from lsusb is: 0c:00.0 and from lsusb -n is
> 14e4:4315
>
> OpenSuse version 11.1
>
> Any help would be much appreciated.

As is noted in sticky #3 in this Forum, the 14e4:4315 devices are not
yet supported by an in-kernel driver. You need to install the
Broadcom-wl package for your kernel from the Packman repository.

As a progress report, someone has finally started writing the code for
the 4315 and other LP Broadcom devices.

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Thank you!
(I guess I didn’t make it to Sticky #3 >:( )

I’ll look into it.