Hi all
The only driver that works for certain Broadcom chipsets are the wl driver (installable from the packman repo). However since kernel 3.7 and above there exists a kernel bug which causes a random kernel panic when one uses the wl driver. One solution is to ‘downgrade’ the kernel to a 3.6 version kernel. How would one do this in openSUSE 12.3?
Also does anybody know if this has been fixed in later kernel releases? I got the same panic in Kubuntu /
Ubuntu / openSUSE with 3.7 and 3.8 kernels 
I wish you wouldn’t double post
I found a user with 3.4
Index of /repositories/home:/-miska-:/virtio/openSUSE_12.3
Of course ‘wl’ from packman will not work
You’d have to build it manually
That’s assuming you are sure you can’t use b43 in 12.3, without resorting to this old kernel method
caf4926, sincere apologies for double posting. If you know of the bug I explained in the other post relating to b43 and know of a workaround for it (whereby I keep on getting disconnected every two seconds asking for authentication) I will give b43 another try. Thanks for linking to the repo.
On 05/14/2013 03:56 AM, georgelappies wrote:
>
> caf4926, sincere apologies for double posting. If you know of the bug I
> explained in the other post relating to b43 and know of a workaround for
> it (whereby I keep on getting disconnected every two seconds asking for
> authentication) I will give b43 another try. Thanks for linking to the
> repo.
I have no idea why this posting was not in the wireless forum.
As the most-important part of wl is only available as a pre-compiled binary,
there is nothing we can do to help you with that driver.
To get the best version of b43 for any kernel, you should install the
compat-wireless package.