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Hi All,

I have a new laptop with me and I am unable to connect to internet from It.
i have a wireless router with WLAN connection. I am able to connect from windows 7
But here it doesnt show any WLAN connections at all…
I am a newbie and dont know how to start debugging this Issue.

my card is :dw1501 Wireless-N WLAN Half mini card,broadcom
lapto:dell

Thanks in advance

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Install Broadcom Drivers from Packman
You need a wired connection for this
If you don’t have one. Get back to me

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Thanks for replying…
I dont have a wired connection.
I can take wifi internet from my windows though… Is there anyway I can download some package through my windows and then install it in OpenSuse…
My version is 11.3
I need this to work at the earliest since I plan to start working on this platform soon…

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Find out the info from suse of:

uname -a

That will tell you your kernel type and in your case if you are 64 bit (desktop, default…)

Then download the packages from Packman to suit.

An alternative you can try without downloading anything is this. Open a terminal and do:

sudo /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware

when that is done. Reboot and test.

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Linux linux-yer7.site 2.6.34-12-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2010-06-29 02:39:08 +0200 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

This is what uname -a gave me

The command you mentioned is not available in distro. So I think I have to download it.
Which is the package i need to select to download? Can you just guide me?
I am currently here

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Are you saying this didn’t work:
sudo /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware

These are the packages
http://packman.unixheads.com/suse/11.3/i586/broadcom-wl-5.60.48.36-7.pm.8.7.i586.rpm
http://packman.unixheads.com/suse/11.3/i586/broadcom-wl-kmp-desktop-5.60.48.36_k2.6.34.7_0.3-7.pm.8.7.i586.rpm

To install, become su - in a terminal and make sure you are in the directory location of the .rpm’s and do

rpm -ivh broadcom-wl-kmp-desktop-5.60.48.36_k2.6.34.7_0.3-7.pm.8.7.i586.rpm --force

rpm -ivh broadcom-wl-5.60.48.36-7.pm.8.7.i586.rpm --force

Only I’m not sure it will work because these packages are tied to the latest kernel, which you don’t have.
Isn’t there any way you can get a wired connection?

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yes because there s no such thing** install_bcm43xx_firmware** in** /usr/sbin/**

I will try the rpm and get back. thanks

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Did you use sudo

sudo /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware

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rpm -ivh broadcom-wl-kmp-desktop-5.60.48.36_k2.6.34.7_0.3-7.pm.8.7.i586.rpm

warning: broadcom-wl-kmp-desktop-5.60.48.36_k2.6.34.7_0.3-7.pm.8.7.i586.rpm: Header V3 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 9a795806: NOKEY
error: Failed dependencies:
kernel(desktop:fs) = 413cc5951d0cb12b is needed by broadcom-wl-kmp-desktop-5.60.48.36_k2.6.34.7_0.3-7.pm.8.7.i586
kernel(desktop:drivers_pci) = cc5de4864ed04320 is needed by broadcom-wl-kmp-desktop-5.60.48.36_k2.6.34.7_0.3-7.pm.8.7.i586

It failed as you told!
There is currently no way that I can have a wired connection. However I will try tomorrow.
Thanks again

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Try installing them the other way around

this one first
rpm -ivh broadcom-wl-5.60.48.36-7.pm.8.7.i586.rpm --force

or with nodeps on the end instead
rpm -ivh broadcom-wl-5.60.48.36-7.pm.8.7.i586.rpm --nodeps

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Yes. this is what I found

sudo /usr/sbin/install_

install_acx100_firmware install_intersil_firmware

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This is the output I got

sudo rpm -ivh broadcom-wl-5.60.48.36-7.pm.8.7.i586.rpm --nodeps

warning: broadcom-wl-5.60.48.36-7.pm.8.7.i586.rpm: Header V3 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 9a795806: NOKEY
Preparing… ########################################### [100%]
1:broadcom-wl ########################################### [100%]

sudo rpm -ivh broadcom-wl-

broadcom-wl-5.60.48.36-7.pm.8.7.i586.rpm broadcom-wl-kmp-desktop-5.60.48.36_k2.6.34.7_0.3-7.pm.8.7.i586.rpm

sudo rpm -ivh broadcom-wl-kmp-desktop-5.60.48.36_k2.6.34.7_0.3-7.pm.8.7.i586.rpm --force

warning: broadcom-wl-kmp-desktop-5.60.48.36_k2.6.34.7_0.3-7.pm.8.7.i586.rpm: Header V3 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 9a795806: NOKEY
error: Failed dependencies:
kernel(desktop:fs) = 413cc5951d0cb12b is needed by broadcom-wl-kmp-desktop-5.60.48.36_k2.6.34.7_0.3-7.pm.8.7.i586
kernel(desktop:drivers_pci) = cc5de4864ed04320 is needed by broadcom-wl-kmp-desktop-5.60.48.36_k2.6.34.7_0.3-7.pm.8.7.i586

sudo rpm -ivh broadcom-wl-kmp-desktop-5.60.48.36_k2.6.34.7_0.3-7.pm.8.7.i586.rpm --nodeps

warning: broadcom-wl-kmp-desktop-5.60.48.36_k2.6.34.7_0.3-7.pm.8.7.i586.rpm: Header V3 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 9a795806: NOKEY
Preparing… ########################################### [100%]
1:broadcom-wl-kmp-desktop########################################### [100%]

Later, After a reboot I check iwconfig ,

sudo /usr/sbin/iwconfig

root’s password:
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:“”
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:8 Mb/s Tx-Power:24 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Managementmode:All packets received
Link Quality=5/5 Signal level=0 dBm Noise level=0 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

But still no internet connection. Anything else I need to do?

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Ideally. Hook it up to a connection and update everything
I’m out all day.

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Thanks!!
I am able to connect to wlan and internet now… It automatically got detected after I configured Knetworkmanager with my settings.
Thanks for all the help! Moreover I am replying from my OpenSuse:)

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Great news!

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i have a dell n4030 14’ laptop with DW1501 wireless <<< i appears in this way in windows.

lspci gives:
12:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)

I’m on opensuse rc2 and I’ve solved the wireless issue loading the brcm80211 module on boot…