Hi,
I’ve just installed openSuSe 11.1 on Asus A6000. Everything went fine apart from wireless. It does show a wireless card but it doesn’t show any available wireless networks (it should be at least 3-4).
How shall I proceed? Any ideas on how to solve this?
How can I find out what wireless card uses my laptop?
All info regarding these procedures are in the stickies. Have a peek at them, they are very helpful
Andy
I’ve read that. I’ve managed to find the card and following the procedure typed in the console:
dmesg | grep firmware
to find out if I need to download the firmware.
Here’s what I received:
firmware: requesting b43/ucode5.fw
b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to b43 - Linux Wireless and download the latest firmware (version 4).
firmware: requesting b43/ucode5.fw
b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to b43 - Linux Wireless and download the latest firmware (version 4).
I went to this website but I don’t know how to find the file to download for openSuSe…
follow this
if you have a broadcom chip-set, & a wired connection, this command, in a console, may help
sudo /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware
To install the BCM43xx firmware if you do not have a connection in Linux, do the following:
Using any method that you have to access the Internet, download this
http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/b...0.10.5.tar.bz2
Then copy it into your home directory. Once you have it there, you should enter the following:
tar xjf broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2
sudo mkdir -p /lib/firmware
sudo b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware \ broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5/driver/wl_apsta_mimo.o
These three commands will skip the download step and extract the firmware in the same way that the /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware does.
Note: If the output of ‘lspci -v’ indicates that you have a BCM4310, BCM4328 or BCM4329, this procedure will not work. For those cases, you will need the Windows driver and ndiswrapper.
For those devices that support 802.11a/b/g, 802.11a operation is not yet supported.
compliments of LarryFinger
Andy
I’ve installed the firmware through console (wired network card works) and it said installed successfully.
It works now!!! Thank you so much for help!!! 
Cool, glad to be of service,now enjoy
Andy
One more question.
How do I make this thread as Solved?
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Andy
Thanks!