Wireles Issue!

English Network/Internet
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Hello everyone! I would like to say I’ve got my first Linux Distrubtion running! Finally, I’ve tried Ubuntu and I hated it, it kept giving me a lot of errors and I couldn’t fix any of them.

But I am happy to say I’ve succesfully installed openSUSE and I am in love with it! :slight_smile:

Except… there is only one problem.

I’m using a laptop and I’m currently connected to the internet via ethernet cable, and I was wondering if I could get help turning my wireless on?

I’ve done the things said to in the Sticky, but after you get your hardware i.d. I was lost.

But here is the information that I got using that:

08:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 02)


08:00.0 0280: 14e4:4311 (rev 02)

That is as far as I got, after that I was lost.

It would be greatly appreciated if I can get some help with this! :slight_smile:

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Mists wrote:
> Hello everyone! I would like to say I’ve got my first Linux Distrubtion
> running! Finally, I’ve tried Ubuntu and I hated it, it kept giving me a
> lot of errors and I couldn’t fix any of them.
>
> But I am happy to say I’ve succesfully installed openSUSE and I am in
> love with it! :slight_smile:
>
> Except… there is only one problem.
>
> I’m using a laptop and I’m currently connected to the internet via
> ethernet cable, and I was wondering if I could get help turning my
> wireless on?
>
> I’ve done the things said to in the Sticky, but after you get your
> hardware i.d. I was lost.
>
> But here is the information that I got using that:
>
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> 08:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 02)
>
> --------------------
>
>
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> 08:00.0 0280: 14e4:4311 (rev 02)
>
> --------------------

That is enough information to help you. What you do next is open a
terminal and enter the command

sudo /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware

You will need to be connected with the wire when you do that. Once
that command finishes, enter the following commands:

sudo /sbin/modprobe -rv b43
sudo /sbin/modprobe -v b43

After that, your wireless network should show up in the NetworkManager
applet and you can create a connection.

Larry

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I’m going to have to say…

YOU ROCK!

I’ve got my wireless connected! This is wonderful!

I can’t wait to explore the world of Linux/openSUSE!

:slight_smile:

  • Note:

When it was downloading, it started to download something called “b43 legacy firmware” after the “b43 firmware”, and the legacy firmware installation failed. My wireless is working great, but just thought I would mention that.

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Mists wrote:
>
> When it was downloading, it started to download something called “b43
> legacy firmware” after the “b43 firmware”, and the legacy firmware
> installation failed. My wireless is working great, but just thought I
> would mention that.

Ignore that. The driver b43legacy is for old hardware - much older
than yours. You do not need it and cannot use it.

Larry