When I installed opensuse I had to ‘install firmware’ to get my wireless working. Since doing this it works fine.
The problem I have is, as I am learning about Linux, I recently tried editing inittab to start in runlevel 3.
When starting up in runlevel 3 the wireless doesn’t work at all until I restart in runlevel 5. When I used ‘startx’ Network Manager started but didn’t have any information about my wireless card.
some info:
Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01)
OpenSuse 11.1 KDE 4.1.3
NetworkManager needs X; therefore, it does not work at run level 3 as
there is no X. If you want networking at that level, you need to use
the traditional ifup and configure everything that way. I have several
computers that always run at level 3, and they are set up that way.
The critical file is /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-XXX, where XXX is
eth0, wlan0, etc.