wifi is not working in DELL INSPIRON n4010

Hi
This is PHANI.
I installed openSUSE 11.4 in my laptop as dual boot.But wireless drivers are not working.Please give a suggestion to work wifi.

While waiting for the wireless guru’s to chime in on this thread, you could start by reading the stickies in this subforum area: Wireless

Its highly unlikely just advising you have a Dell Inspiron n4010 and openSUSE-11.4 will be enough information to give to anyone to help. Those stickie provide advise as to the information you need to provide.

Some elaboration is needed. Quite a bit.
Is NetworkManager not picking things up? What are you running, KDE or Gnome?
A post of

rfkill

and

lsusb

will be helpful, you’ll probably have to install rfkill

sudo zypper in rfkill

In the meantime, make sure your wireless switch is on and try


su
ifconfig wlan0 up
iwconfig wlan0 essid "your network name" ap ma:ca:dd:re:ss
dhcpcd wlan0

Where the ma:ca:dd:re:ss is the mac address of your router. You may find it with

iwlist wlan0 scan

Hi
Thanks for your response.
i installed KDE in my laptop.

Here the output of rfkill

Usage: rfkill [options] command
Options:
–version show version (0.4)
Commands:
help
event
list [IDENTIFIER]
block IDENTIFIER
unblock IDENTIFIER
where IDENTIFIER is the index no. of an rfkill switch or one of:
<idx> all wifi wlan bluetooth uwb ultrawideband wimax wwan gps fm

output of lsusb

Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0a5c:4500 Broadcom Corp. BCM2046B1 USB 2.0 Hub (part of BCM2046 Bluetooth)
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0bda:0138 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 413c:8161 Dell Computer Corp. Integrated Keyboard
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 413c:8162 Dell Computer Corp. Integrated Touchpad [Synaptics]
Bus 001 Device 008: ID 0c45:6461 Microdia
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0461:4d22 Primax Electronics, Ltd