Hi everyone,
I just installed openSUSE 12.3 an hour ago… the only problem I now have is that I can´t connect to our wireless network! Wich is strange becsause SUSE can see what kind of network PCI I´ve got…
When I go to Network management > network connections, only Wired and VPN are available. I can´t click on wireless!
How do I connect??
I´m fairly new to SUSE and it looks like an awesome Linux OS. I don´t want this to ruin it 
On 04/02/2013 10:36 PM, mcgloud wrote:
> How do I connect??
a problem in the release, fix it with the info here:
http://tinyurl.com/chwpxzv
(i think)
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dd
openSUSE®, the “German Engineered Automobile” of operating systems!
http://tinyurl.com/DD-Caveat
I don´t know what I did but i´m connected so!rotfl!
On 04/02/2013 03:36 PM, mcgloud wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
> I just installed openSUSE 12.3 an hour ago… the only problem I now
> have is that I can´t connect to our wireless network! Wich is strange
> becsause SUSE can see what kind of network PCI I´ve got…
> When I go to Network management > network connections, only Wired and
> VPN are available. I can´t click on wireless!
> How do I connect??
>
> I´m fairly new to SUSE and it looks like an awesome Linux OS. I don´t
> want this to ruin it
For future reference, this posting should have been in the wireless forum. In
addition, the stickies there would have given you some pointers.
You need to check a few things.
/usr/sbin/iwconfig
The above command should show wlan0. If you need to install firmware, the wlan0
device will not be present, and NM will never see your wireless.
If wlan0 is NOT present:
Run the command ‘dmesg | less’ to see the log. The space key will page one
screen at a time. Look for firmware messages. Press the q to quit the pager.
If wlan0 IS present above, check to make sure your wireless switch is on. You
can make a final check with
sudo zypper in rfkill
/usr/sbin/rfkill list
You will need to have a network connection. If any of the entries show “yes”,
that will keep the wireless network from being active.
If you have a wlan0 device and it is not blocked, then run
sudo /usr/sbin/iwlist scan
Do any neighboring APs show?
If you still do not have a wireless device, run the following and post the output:
/sbin/lspci -nn | grep Network
The output of the last command is:
08:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM43142 802.11b/g/n [14e4:4365] (rev 01)
Can you please help me fix the wireless driver?
PS. I’m newbie in opensuse…
On 06/25/2013 06:56 AM, johnny dr wrote:
>
> The output of the last command is:
>
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> 08:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM43142 802.11b/g/n [14e4:4365] (rev 01)
>
>
> --------------------
>
>
> Can you please help me fix the wireless driver?
>
> PS. I’m newbie in opensuse…
See the thread on the Wireless Forum entitled “Wireles broken after update”. You
have exactly the same problem.