Hello … After installing firmware for broadcom bc4318 as per the post by iwfinger on march 11 th the machine reboots and crashes with the message on a black screen with white text
"unable to handle kernal paging request at ffffffec " and lost of other text …the only way to is remove the battery and boot again …the kb does not respond at all.
I have tried wiping and writing the drive using clonezilla dd command zeros completely over drive and doing a fresh install of 12.3 …
The laptop works ok with other distros eg mint ubuntu etc
Dell 1300 Inspiron … 2GIG memory, 60 gig HDD opensuse 12.3 DVD 32bit KDE automatic configuration using all default options throughout .except set time zone to UK London.
Just before the machine reboots i think ( its very quick ) it says the firmware installed successfully …
there is no wireless switch on the laptop
The network manager is on the panel but no wireless …wired connection works ok … yast overview shows wired connection only
When i do a lspci scan there is no wlan interface …
If anyone has any pointers …please .