Wireless doesn't work in runlevel 3

Hi,

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

Can someone explain whats happening here, please.

Thanks for your help.

Barry.

Here you can see the detail information about installation of BCM module Fix BCM4311/4312/4321/4322 Wireless in openSUSE 11.1 and earlier | SUSE & openSUSE.
If your wireless device can’t be started in runlevel 3, please use “lsmod” command to make sure BCM module workable first.

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.

Thanks for the speedy reply.

I’ll look into that.

Regards,
Barry.

All set up and working perfectly.

Thanks for your help.