Suse 11 and wifi with BCM4318

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#1

Hi to everyone. I’m a slightly disoriented with this new discussion forum, used to the old one :rolleyes:
So… I just installed openSuse 11 on my laptop and apparently everything is working great.
Unforunately the wifi is not working. Wifi card (Broadcom BCM 4318) is beeing detected and linux is also detecting correctly it’s MAC address. But if I click on the network icon to see which networks are detected nothing appears (and usually where I live there also always 3-4 networks plus mine). Also if I try to configure a new wireless network with my information, nothing happens.

Any ideas?

#2

deanmoriarty wrote:

> Hi to everyone. I’m a slightly disoriented with this new discussion
> forum, used to the old one :rolleyes:

I thought a website search was commonly regarded as a solved problem.

> Unforunately the wifi is not working. Wifi card (Broadcom BCM 4318) is

You failed to find this:
http://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php?t=387758

#3

Never mind,

the NNTP interface seems to eat some posts…

Step 1: Going to the homepage and search hardware. This takes you to:
HCL/Network Adapters (Wireless - openSUSE

And looking up your broadcomm card reads:

“Native kernel driver. Needs firmware however. Install bcm43xx-fwcutter from
DVD or OSS-repo and run as root the included script:
install_bcm43xx_firmware from the /usr/sbin directory.”

For the parts of these instructions, just read the manual.

For the “Install bcm43xx-fwcutter” part:
YaST/Modules/Software Management - openSUSE

For the “from DVD or OSS-repo” part:
Add Package Repositories to YaST - openSUSE
(Should be already there, though)

For “run as root” part:
SDB:Login as root - openSUSE

In short, for example:

CTRL-ALT-F2
root RETURN
<rootpassword> RETURN
zypper in bcm43xx-fwcutter RETURN
/usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware RETURN
logout
CTRL-ALT-F7
REBOOT

#4

deanmoriarty wrote:

> Unforunately the wifi is not working. Wifi card (Broadcom BCM 4318) is
> beeing detected and linux is also detecting correctly it’s MAC address.
> But if I click on the network icon to see which networks are detected
> nothing appears (and usually where I live there also always 3-4
> networks plus mine). Also if I try to configure a new wireless network
> with my information, nothing happens.

This one was a pretty good help for me:
http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43

I used the b43 driver with kernel 2.6.25 and I did all the things described
in the text. After configuring the network parameters in Yast the wireless
LAN is working fine.

Dieter

#5

You can use Wifi-radar

Download here and try it

http://packman.links2linux.org/download/wifi-radar/130414/wifi-radar-1.9.8-0.pm.1.noarch.rpm

#6

I had to use the firmware specified for kernel 2.6.24 (broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0) to make it work. The firmware specified for kernel 2.6.25 didn’t work at all.