Wireless doesn't work in runlevel 3

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#1

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.

#2

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.

#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.

#4

Thanks for the speedy reply.

I’ll look into that.

Regards,
Barry.

#5

All set up and working perfectly.

Thanks for your help.