Opensuse 11.2. Wireless bcm4328 won't work

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I have a bcm4328 wireless card and it won’t connect. I am new with linux so I am not familiar with everything. Here are some screen shots of some of my information.

Erik

enelson@linux-u830:~> uname -a
Linux linux-u830 2.6.31.5-0.1-default #1 SMP 2009-10-26 15:49:03 +0100 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
enelson@linux-u830:~>

linux-u830:/home/enelson # lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 03)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Marvell Yukon 88E8058 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 13)
04:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Agere Systems FW322/323 (rev 61)

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On 01/03/2010 08:56 PM, brauererik wrote:
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> I have a bcm4328 wireless card and it won’t connect. I am new with
> linux so I am not familiar with everything. Here are some screen shots
> of some of my information.

The BCM4328 needs the Broadcom-wl to work as the reverse engineering for that
device is under way. With Webpin, you should be able to find a package that
matches your kernel as it displays with ‘uname -r’.

You need to be aware that a kernel upgrade will break your wireless when you use
this driver - that is a consequence of using an out-of-kernel driver.

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http://api.opensuse-community.org/searchservice//YMPs/openSUSE_112/1d2c97b2889b11deafacdf4c46b3b2d96f5b5f07

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Thanks for the help. My wireless is now up and working, and connecting with the good speed.

Thanks

Erik

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My wireless broadcom4328 does not work after the latest kernel update from few days ago.

I have found this very quick workaround with ndiswrapper on ubuntuforums (forum).
ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.sys && modprobe ndiswrapper

The drivers to download: download link

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ndiswrapper compared to the wl driver is brown and smelly

You probably didn’t update the broadcom-wl driver
And especially if you had the dud Packman repo