Use WLAN under 11.1 with a HP dv6500

[Axeia]

Quoting myself from another thread, you might want to try:

@Axeia

I think this could be done even easier, as my old ASUS laptop I recently installed openSUSE on has a similar network chip (can’t remember the exact model). But the installation on that one was so darn easy it left me suprised.

1. Open a shell window*]run

sudo install-bcm43xx-firmware

1. There is no step 3… done already! (picked it up from the wiki)

This does require the b43-fwcutter package to be installed, but I think it is by default if you have a compatible chipset. If not, it can be done trough either YaST software management or (as root) zypper install b43-fwcutter