I’m new in Open Suse and I’m using 11.4 version. I managed to get my wireless card working on my laptop, it detects my router but can’t connect to it. I’m using WEP. If i plug a cable everything works great and in other OS I don’t have any problem with wireless (I have Windows 7 and Snow Leopard running in my Toshiba Laptop)
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
ok I’ve changed my Security from WEP to WPA and it started to work now. I can connect to my wireless network. Maybe a problem with lower security choice , lol.
The only problem I have now is that each time I reboot I need to run this lines:
sudo /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware
sudo /sbin/modprobe -rv b43
sudo /sbin/modprobe -v b43
In the second command I get ’ All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-wl-blacklist, it will be ignored in a future release.’
Maybe it’s a dumb question but how can I make those lines permanent?
On 11/06/2011 05:46 PM, antoliveira2 wrote:
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> ok I’ve changed my Security from WEP to WPA and it started to work now.
> I can connect to my wireless network. Maybe a problem with lower
> security choice , lol.
>
> The only problem I have now is that each time I reboot I need to run
> this lines:
>
> sudo /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware
> sudo /sbin/modprobe -rv b43
> sudo /sbin/modprobe -v b43
>
> In the second command I get ’ All config files need .conf:
> /etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-wl-blacklist, it will be ignored in a future
> release.’
>
> Maybe it’s a dumb question but how can I make those lines permanent?
You will not need to. The reason you had to do them is that the driver only
reads the firmware when it is first loaded. As it had already been loaded before
the firmware was installed, you needed those two commands, but you are now
through with them.
Your WEP problem was probably due to using a passphrase, not the hex key. As you
will find in many postings in the wireless forum, the phrase WILL NOT WORK.
Thanks for your reply. . But the problem concerning to those lines is that everytime I boot my wireless card is unavailable until I run those comands
On 11/07/2011 03:56 AM, antoliveira2 wrote:
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> Thanks for your reply. . But the problem concerning to those lines is
> that everytime I boot my wireless card is unavailable until I run those
> comands
If you have EVER used the wl driver, then b43 and/or ssb is blacklisted. Fix
that and it will work.
Done…working 100%. Thank you very much for your patience
Ok so i have a similar problem. i’ve been trying to figure this out with no avail. my wireless card is working and detecting my network but cannot connect. how do i go about changing wep to wpa so i can fix this problem?
On 11/26/2011 11:06 AM, williamtackett wrote:
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> Ok so i have a similar problem. i’ve been trying to figure this out
> with no avail. my wireless card is working and detecting my network but
> cannot connect. how do i go about changing wep to wpa so i can fix this
> problem?
That is set in the AP.