Hi folks, I’m brand spanking new to suse, been running ubuntu for the last six months and fancied giving a different OS a try. I’m running on a dell inspiron 1300 laptop and everything but my wireless card is running fine. I read the guide on what info you guys would require and hopefully i have it all here for you…
/sbin/lspci
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02:03.0 Network Controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
/sbin/lspci -n
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02:03.0 0280: 14e4:4318 (rev 02)
dmesg | less
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b43-phy0: Broadcom 4318 WLAN found
phy0: Selected rate control algorithm ‘pid’
Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [Features: PMLR, Firmware-ID: FW13]
/usr/sbin/iwconfig
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wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:””
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 Ghz Access point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=27 dbm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal Level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
sudo /usr/sbin/iwlist scan
wlan0 Interface doesn’t support scanning : Network is down.
Network settings shows the following:
BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (Not connected)
MAC : 00:14:a5:c8:44:b8
• Device Name: wlan0
• Started automatically at boot
• IP address assigned using DHCP
I have checked to ensure the device is enabled in Bios and it is indeed, it has run perfectly without issue for the last 18 months so I’d be surprised if it’s suddenly developed a hardware problem at exactly the moment I changed OS…
The green indicator light is not lit and I cannot activate it using fn+F2.
Any ideas folks? This is driving me quite, quite mad!
lol!
