Wireless device is connecting with Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop

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#1

Hi Friends,

Just now am moving from windows os to linux (opensuse). Am facing lot of difficulties to identify and solve the problems, but this place reduces my problem solving - Thank for this nice forum.

Now am facing another problem, Am not able to connect my Dell Inspiron 1545 Laptop to Dlink DWL-2100AP wirless modem. But this has been connected and worked properly in Windows 7.

I have tried this options and failed to solve this problem.

  1. Using default KNetwork Manager to connect the wifi.
  2. selected wlan0 create a new connection.
  3. Got popup window, there i have select “Connect to other network on wlan0”.
  4. In wireless tab. While doing scan option. I couldnt find any wireless device. but i can able to see that wireless device in my mobile.
  5. Eventhough i have entered the IP address on that wireless tab but i that connect option is not enabling.

Kindly suggest me…

#2

Welcome. Open a teminal and
Please post the result of

/sbin/lspci -nnk
#3

Hi Admin,
Thanks for your quick reply. Here is the message, i have got for that command.

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub [8086:2a40] (rev 07)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02aa]
Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a42] (rev 07)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02aa]
Kernel driver in use: i915
00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a43] (rev 07)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02aa]
00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:2937] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02aa]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1a.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 [8086:2938] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02aa]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1a.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 [8086:2939] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02aa]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1a.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 [8086:293c] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02aa]
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:293e] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02aa]
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:2940] (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 [8086:2942] (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 3 [8086:2944] (rev 03)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 [8086:2948] (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:2934] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02aa]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:2935] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02aa]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:2936] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02aa]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 [8086:293a] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02aa]
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev 93)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller [8086:2919] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02aa]
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller [8086:2929] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02aa]
Kernel driver in use: ahci
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller [8086:2930] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02aa]
Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus
09:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller [11ab:4354] (rev 13)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02aa]
Kernel driver in use: sky2
0c:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card [1028:000c]
Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge

#4

Please read the stickies at the start of this forum. That will tell you what
information to supply regarding your wireless device. With that, we will be able
to advise you on what steps to take next.

With the information/symptoms that you listed in the previous posting, there
could be many things wrong. Doing the investigation in a systematic manner will
get your wireless working as quickly as possible.

As a hint, the first thing you need is to identify the wireless interface with
the command


/sbin/lspci -nn
#5

OK
You need to follow this
Install Broadcom Drivers from Packman

If you need me to hold your hand thru it, just come back with the result of

uname -a
#6

Hi,

I tried to install broadcom drivers for packman, But am getting error message as

zypper in broadcom-wl broadcom-wl-kmp-default
Loading repository data…
Reading installed packages…
Resolving package dependencies…
2 Problems:
Problem: nothing provides kernel(default:drivers_base) = 00125ef8238682fd needed by broadcom-wl-kmp-default-5.100.82.38_k2.6.34.0_12-7.pm.9.5.i586
Problem: nothing provides kernel(xen:kernel) = 29ce33a3c1def23d needed by broadcom-wl-kmp-xen-5.100.82.38_k2.6.34.0_12-7.pm.9.5.i586

Problem: nothing provides kernel(default:drivers_base) = 00125ef8238682fd needed by broadcom-wl-kmp-default-5.100.82.38_k2.6.34.0_12-7.pm.9.5.i586
Solution 1: do not install broadcom-wl-kmp-default-5.100.82.38_k2.6.34.0_12-7.pm.9.5.i586
Solution 2: break broadcom-wl-kmp-default by ignoring some of its dependencies

Choose from above solutions by number or skip, retry or cancel [1/2/s/r/c] (c):

For uname -a, i have got,

Linux linux-epot.site 2.6.37.6-0.7-default #1 SMP 2011-07-21 02:17:24 +0200 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

#7

Actually crystallhd-kmp-default has been installed. Am not sure whether it is correct.

#8

Please post result of

zypper lr -d

It looks like you added the 11.3 repo and not 11.4 for packman

#9

Hi,
Here is the result for zypper lr -d

| Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh | Priority | Type | URI | Service

—±---------------------------------±---------------------------------±--------±--------±---------±---------±--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------±-------
1 | Education | Education | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/Education/openSUSE_11.4 |
2 | PK_TMP_DIR | PK_TMP_DIR | Yes | Yes | 99 | plaindir | dir:///var/tmp/TmpDir.saAXoR |
3 | Updates-for-openSUSE-11.4-11.4-0 | Updates for openSUSE 11.4 11.4-0 | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /update/11.4 |
4 | devel:languages:perl | devel:languages:perl | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/devel:/languages:/perl/openSUSE_11.4 |
5 | openSUSE-11.4-11.4-0 | openSUSE-11.4-11.4-0 | No | No | 99 | yast2 | cd:///?devices=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-TSSTcorp_DVD+_-RW_TS-L633C_R4886GGSB02759,/dev/sr0 |
6 | openSUSE-11.4_11.4-0 | openSUSE-11.4 11.4-0 | No | No | 99 | yast2 | dvd:///?devices=/dev/sr0 |
7 | openSUSE:11.4 | openSUSE:11.4 | Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | Index of /distribution/11.4/repo/oss |
8 | openSUSE:11.4:NonFree | openSUSE:11.4:NonFree | Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | Index of /distribution/11.4/repo/non-oss |
9 | packman | packman | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/openSUSE_11.3 |
10 | repo-debug | openSUSE-11.4-Debug | No | Yes | 99 | NONE | Index of /debug/distribution/11.4/repo/oss |
11 | repo-debug-update | openSUSE-11.4-Update-Debug | No | Yes | 99 | NONE | Index of /debug/update/11.4 |
12 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.4-Non-Oss | Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | Index of /distribution/11.4/repo/non-oss |
13 | repo-oss | openSUSE-11.4-Oss | Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | Index of /distribution/11.4/repo/oss |
14 | repo-source | openSUSE-11.4-Source | Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | Index of /source/distribution/11.4/repo/oss |
15 | videolan | videolan | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /pub/vlc/SuSE/11.4/ |

#10

OK
You made some mistakes. One big one is to add the Videolan repo, so I’ll remove that. Please follow this in order:
The first code will get us to su - (you will need to enter your password)

su -
zypper rr 15


zypper rr 9

zypper rr 2

zypper ar -f http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_11.4/ packman

zypper ref

zypper in broadcom-wl broadcom-wl-kmp-default

That should do the wireless. You may need to reboot.
But after that you need to see if you can do this in software manager.
If you use Gnome it looks like this: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10573557/Switcher%20Pics/packman%20in%20gnome.png
If you use KDE it looks: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10573557/Switcher%20Pics/11.4_packman_switch.png

If you get dependency errors, you can save them to file with the expert button and post them here

#11

Hi,

I did as you said, while changing to packman am getting this screen. Kindly advice me what to do.

http://i54.tinypic.com/2ypg6yq.png

#12

Install clucene-core from excluded repo
keep obsolete linphone

#13

Hi Admin,

Thanks for your valuable guide… Its working beautiful. Nice Support

#14

Great news !

#15

I would like to hook on to this topic, because I have the same problem. I did add the packman repo, after installing the driver it seems like the wireless card doesn’t show up anymore in knetworkmanager. “ifup” command" interface wlan0 is not available…wlan0 was available before I added the packman repo’s and broadcomdriver, which should work on my 4312 chipset.

(lspci -nn last lines:)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller [11ab:4354] (rev 13)
0c:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01)

(dell inspiron 1545, opensuse linux 11.4, x64)

(erm… I am on this forum for many years, not very active though but once in a while reading/posting… probably logged in with wrong username… my mistake, I need to read my notes on login names)

#16

09:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller [11ab:4354] (rev 13)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02aa]
Kernel driver in use: sky2
0c:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card [1028:000c]
Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge

(missed data)

Bijwerken-van-openSUSE-11.4-11.4-0 | Bijwerken van openSUSE 11.4 11.4-0 | Ja | Ja | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.4/ |
2 | Packman Repository | Packman Repository | Ja | Ja | 99 | rpm-md | http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_11.4/ |
3 | openSUSE-11.4-11.4-0 | openSUSE-11.4-11.4-0 | Ja | Nee | 99 | yast2 | cd:///?devices=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Optiarc_DVD+_-RW_AD-7560S_SK93408076,/dev/sr0 |
4 | packman | packman | Ja | Ja | 99 | rpm-md | http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_11.4/ |
5 | repo-debug | openSUSE-11.4-Debug | Nee | Ja | 99 | NONE | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/11.4/repo/oss/ |
6 | repo-debug-update | openSUSE-11.4-Update-Debug | Nee | Ja | 99 | NONE | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/update/11.4/ |
7 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.4-Non-Oss | Ja | Ja | 99 | yast2 | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.4/repo/non-oss/ |
8 | repo-oss | openSUSE-11.4-Oss | Ja | Ja | 99 | yast2 | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.4/repo/oss/ |
9 | repo-source | openSUSE-11.4-Source | Nee | Ja | 99 | NONE | http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/11.4/repo/oss/

#17

Post result of

rpm -qa | grep kernel

uname -a

rpm -qa | grep broadcom
#18

Hi, thanks for your very quick reply:

kernel-default-2.6.37.6-0.7.1.x86_64
kernel-desktop-2.6.37.1-1.2.2.x86_64

uname -a
Linux linux-dell-inspiron.site 2.6.37.6-0.7-default #1 SMP 2011-07-21 02:17:24 +0200 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

rpm -qa | grep broadcom
broadcom-wl-kmp-default-5.100.82.38_k2.6.37.6_0.7-7.pm.9.7.x86_64
broadcom-wl-kmp-desktop-5.100.82.38_k2.6.37.6_0.7-7.pm.9.7.x86_64
broadcom-wl-5.100.82.38-7.pm.9.7.x86_64

#19

OK
You have 2 different kernels installed.
I would boot using kernel-desktop but it’s up to you. For the moment just work with kernel-default, because your kernel-desktop is not updated.

Please try doing this:

sudo /sbin/modprobe -rv b43

sudo /sbin/modprobe -v wl
#20

sudo /sbin/modprobe -rv b43
rmmod /lib/modules/2.6.37.6-0.7-default/kernel/drivers/ssb/ssb.ko
rmmod /lib/modules/2.6.37.6-0.7-default/kernel/drivers/mmc/core/mmc_core.ko
rmmod /lib/modules/2.6.37.6-0.7-default/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia.ko
rmmod /lib/modules/2.6.37.6-0.7-default/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_core.ko

sudo /sbin/modprobe -v wl
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.37.6-0.7-default/updates/wl.ko

Two different kernels… right… weird… just installed from the latest ISO image. :shame: