New Dell Laptop Wireless Driver Issues

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Have a new Dell Studio laptop and have loaded with correct 64 bit suse 11.2.
However, I have found that the wireless is not detecting any AP’s at all. This came preloaded with Windows 7 and on the set up it did detect AP’s. I obviously replaced Windows (with a new hard drive) alsowhile trying to work out what was going on I loaded a live cd of Ubantu 9.1 and it came up with an interesting suggestion - stating that the driver for my wireless card was locked and that I should unlock it, however one of the drivers did not unlock and the other one it downloaded and installed the drivers successfully, this lasted for all of 10 seconds before it stated that it was locked again.
I have been through the diagnostic sticky and followed the steps and I am even more confused now as the driver seems to be loading the firmware and in the hardware information the card is successfully detected and it says the driver is active.
The device is Broadcom 4322 WLAN.
The relevant section in the boot.msg states the following:-
b43-phy0: Broadcom 4322 WLAN found (core revision 16)
<6> 5.357111] ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[17] MMIO=[fc600000-fc6007ff] Max Packet=[2048] IR/IT contexts=[4/4]
<6> 5.362400] sdhci-pci 0000:09:01.1: SDHCI controller found [1180:0822] (rev 22)
<6> 5.362444] sdhci-pci 0000:09:01.1: PCI INT B -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
<6> 5.364579] Registered led device: mmc0::
<6> 5.365846] mmc0: SDHCI controller on PCI [0000:09:01.1] using DMA
<3> 5.367430] b43-phy0 ERROR: FOUND UNSUPPORTED PHY (Analog 8, Type 4, Revision 4)
<4> 5.367469] b43: probe of ssb0:0 failed with error -95
<6> 5.367485] Broadcom 43xx driver loaded Features: PML, Firmware-ID: FW13 ]
<6> 5.382449] ACPI: AC Adapter [ADP1] (off-line)

The kernal driver in hardware information is ssb and states the wireless controller as :
BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n wireless LAN controller

Can you possibly help me please ?

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On 12/28/2009 05:06 AM, thatbrat wrote:
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> Can you possibly help me please ?

Yes.

Obviously, you have not done any research in this forum. That question has been
answered many times. I won’t give you the whole answer, but you need the
broadcom-wl package.

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I have found this package but I am not sure how to install it and I have heard that it involves kernal changing and I have no idea how to start with this and know how delicate this process is. Hence the reason I posted it on the forum. I have been trying all sorts of routes since your reply but I am still stuck. Could you possibly help?

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On 01/13/2010 10:46 AM, thatbrat wrote:
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> I have found this package but I am not sure how to install it and I have
> heard that it involves kernal changing and I have no idea how to start
> with this and know how delicate this process is. Hence the reason I
> posted it on the forum. I have been trying all sorts of routes since
> your reply but I am still stuck. Could you possibly help?

You should install all packages using YaST (GUI) or zypper (CLI).

Adding a package does not involve kernel changing. If the package involves a
kernel module, also known as a module, then that package will only work with a
specific kernel version. When the kernel changes, that module will need to be
reinstalled.

What kernel do you have? Hint: It is given in the output of ‘uname -r’.

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Hi

Is there anyway someone could give me a “walk through” as to how to sort this problem out. I am not a computer whizz and really need some idiot proof help here.
Many many thanks to anyone willing to help me on this one !