Hello !
I’m a french guy trying to switch his wireless connection on…
I’ve found that, compared to ubuntu, opensuse is more stable, but I still have many problems with wifi.
In fact, I’ve successed once, but I had a problem, had to format, and reinstall, and now, I dunno how to make it work again…
I’ve done many things, read many forums, but it still not work…
I’ve an ACER 3023 WLMi, with a broadcom card
Things I’ve done :
- installed ndiswrapper,
- things to install bcm43xx (mine is bcmwl5.inf)
- wrote many things in a terminal (like “modprobe”, blacklist, edit, etc, etc)
But, I think I have 2 problems (because I know I had to do something like that on the first time it worked) :
- no “hotkeys” (none of them turn on, above all the one of the wifi when I lauch my computer)
- I think I have to do something to replace, in YAST/ network settings, “ssb” and replace it with “ndiswrapper”…
PLEASE… help me, because after many days on forums, I don’t find anything to solve my problem…
Thanks !
Marc
Did you read the stickies at the start of the wireless section ? which driver are you trying to use ? ndiswrapper or b43 ? Need more info
Andy
Hello !
Yes, I read the “before posting a thread”…
I dunno if it answers your question, but I’ve ndiswrapper which is installed and if I launch “ndisinstaller” it asks for bcmwl5.inf (and as it doesn’t work when I follow the steps, I’ve tried with the code lines given on different forums).
When I do “ndiswrapper -l”, I’ve
bcmwl5 : driver installed
device (14E4:4318) present (alternative driver: ssb)
How can I help you more ?
Thanks in advance.
Marc
you would probably be better off using ssb & the firmware for your device,instead of ndiswrapper.
if you have a broadcom chip-set, & a wired connection, this command, in a console, may help
Code:
sudo /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware
To install the BCM43xx firmware if you do not have a connection in Linux, do the following:
Using any method that you have to access the Internet, download this
http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/b...0.10.5.tar.bz2
Then copy it into your home directory. Once you have it there, you should enter the following:
tar xjf broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2
sudo mkdir -p /lib/firmware
sudo b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware \ broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5/driver/wl_apsta_mimo.o
These three commands will skip the download step and extract the firmware in the same way that the /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware does.
Note: If the output of ‘lspci -v’ indicates that you have a BCM4310, BCM4328 or BCM4329, this procedure will not work. For those cases, you will need the Windows driver and ndiswrapper.
For those devices that support 802.11a/b/g, 802.11a operation is not yet supported.
compliments of LarryFinger
Andy
I’ve a 4318, so it seems it should work
And I’ve also done that code before, and everything is installed, but then, I don’t know what to do…
What should I launch or/and do to have my wireless connection ?
once the firmware/driver is installed,you need to configure the device via YaST - network devices - network settings.Click on the device & then select edit/configure & fill in the necessary bits, e.g.
1 ) ESSID = youressid ( change to whatever yours is )
2 ) encryption = whatever it is set to on the router, i.e. wep-wep/wpa-wpa/passphrase-passphrase/ascii-ascii
4 ) firewall set to external
5 ) start on boot
6 ) ipv6 disabled
7 ) user controlled by network manager
hopefully,following that little lot should get you working
Andy
Hello !
As I thought at the beginning, it was a problem with the “hot keys” of my acer laptop.
So I followed that HCL/Laptops/Acer/Aspire5024WLMI - openSUSE (followed the “acerhk” method) and now, it works…
Thanks for all
Marc
Cool, glad you got it sorted,now enjoy 
Andy
A last question : do I have to close this thread ? If yes, could you tell me how ?
nah, no need to close it,but, if you are satisfied the problem is fully resolved I can put “solved” in the title
Andy
Yes, I’m satisfied, you can close it.
Thanks
ok, will put "solved in the title
Andy