I’ve spent three days furiously trying to get an HP notebook installed with linux, SUSE is the third flavour I’m trying and at least the wireless device (14e4:4727) works at all this time (peppermint couldn’t get past the hardblock and kubuntu wouldn’t even load). Unfortunately it only runs at about 30kb/s.
After reading through about a bunch of conflicting forum suggestions I tried changing the broadcom-wl driver but stopping and restarting Network Manager so I could access YaST ended up with KDE not loading and an “install login” prompt I couldn’t get past. I’m now reinstalling SUSE again, but I’m hours away from going back to Windows 7. Can anyone help me?
Looking at your problem report i guess it could become quite challenging to help you.
To begin with, you did not tell us which package you installed to get a broadcom-wl driver, where that package came from and how you installed it.
You installed openSUSE Leap 15.3 which is still a beta version and therefor might not be stable.
Regards
susejunky
Thanks for the reply. Turns out it is Leap 15.2, I was misreading the kernel release (5.3)
Anyway, I followed several rabbit holes and eventually used the wayback machine to find out that it was the straight broadcom-wl I needed for my wifi device, and that I should have installed it using YaST and not zypper (because it resolves the conflicts for me).
Now it’s working at a reasonable speed, although it stops working when I suspend the notebook, as does the sound. Another day, another quirk.
I will change the prefix to match the installed version in question.
Perhaps a custom suspend/resume script might help as a workaround here. A bit of experimentation may be required. The following thread describes restarting NetworkManager on resume…
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/530455-Wifi-connection-failure-after-Hibernate-or-reboot?p=2860811#post2860811
This thread shows how to use the script to unload the wifi driver on suspend, and load it again on resume…
I was given an old laptop which suits my needs perfectly well except for the impossibly slow wireless. It’s not as bad as the OP, but a big zypper dup can take literally all day. I have the Broadcom chip and would try to follow suggestions here. However, I need to be sure I can roll back to at least a functioning wifi. Here are my specifics:
Tumbleweed
Dell Latitude E6530
Broadcom BCM4313 adapter
bcma-pci-bridge driver
kernel driver bcma
Yast shows me two files: B43legacy and bcm43xx firmware. Neither of these lists BCM 4313. They do list 4311, 4312 and 4321. Are these “close enough” to switch to?
@Prexy: It would be better for you to start your own thread with descriptive title than to confuse the one here.
Sorry. I thought this was about the bcm4313 drivers. BTW, my laptop dual boots with windows 10. I ran speed tests from 3 sites on Tumbleweed and Windows. Windows downloads 15-20x faster.