I have installed open suse 11.3 with no issue, but I can’t find the dirvers for the wireless network card/
Wireless, Half Mini-Card, DW1520
Thanks
Please post the result of
/sbin/lspci -nnk
Here is the output
Many Thanks
lspci -nnk
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub [8086:2a40] (rev 07)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0443]
Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Graphics Port [8086:2a41] (rev 07)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a42] (rev 07)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0443]
Kernel driver in use: i915
00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:2937] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0443]
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 [1028:0443]
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 [1028:0443]
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)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 [8086:2942] (rev 03)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1c.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 [8086:2948] (rev 03)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:2934] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0443]
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 [1028:0443]
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 [1028:0443]
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 [1028:0443]
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-E LPC Interface Controller [8086:2917] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0443]
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller [8086:2929] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0443]
Kernel driver in use: ahci
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller [8086:2930] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0443]
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation GT215 [GeForce GT 335M] [10de:0caf] (rev a2)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0443]
01:00.1 Audio device [0403]: nVidia Corporation High Definition Audio Controller [10de:0be4] (rev a1)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0443]
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications AR8132 Fast Ethernet [1969:1062] (rev c0)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0443]
Kernel driver in use: atl1c
08:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM43224 802.11a/b/g/n [14e4:4353] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:000e]
1a:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: JMicron Technology Corp. IEEE 1394 Host Controller [197b:2380]
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0443]
Kernel driver in use: ohci1394
1a:00.1 System peripheral [0880]: JMicron Technology Corp. SD/MMC Host Controller [197b:2382]
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0443]
Kernel driver in use: sdhci-pci
1a:00.3 System peripheral [0880]: JMicron Technology Corp. MS Host Controller [197b:2383]
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0443]
Kernel driver in use: jmb38x_ms
Please try this:
sudo /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware
modprobe b43
reboot
You need to install the broadcom-wl and broadcom-wl-kmp-YOURKERNELFLAVOR packages from the Packman repositories. These provide the drivers and install scripts for your card. Reboot after install of the drivers, and your NIC should work.
Yes
I wasn’t sure if b43 or wl was best
Here is a broadcom-wl guide
Install Broadcom Drivers from Packman
On 10/24/2010 01:06 PM, caf4926 wrote:
> Yes
> I wasn’t sure if b43 or wl was best
>
> Here is a broadcom-wl guide
> ‘Install Broadcom Drivers from Packman’ (http://tinyurl.com/2c72nor)
That is an N PHY. Wl is needed.
Just for the record:
/lib/modules/2.6.31.14-0.1-desktop/updates/drivers/staging/brcm80211/**brcm80211.ko**
alias: pci:v0000**14E4**d0000**4353**sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
--
/lib/modules/2.6.31.14-0.1-desktop/updates/**wl.ko**
alias: pci:v0000**14E4**d0000**4353**sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
So at least for the future, brcm80211 will be another candidate.
This works great !!!
Last question
I’m seeing the connection is only 2 Mb/s
Any idea why?
Thank you
On 10/25/2010 06:06 PM, qsummon wrote:
>
> This works great !!!
> Last question
> I’m seeing the connection is only 2 Mb/s
>
> Any idea why?
As that driver is closed source, we have no idea.
I use the broadcom-wl and it’s spanking fast, almost as good as my hard wired eth0
how can I test the speed of the connection?
I’m taking that 2 mb/sec from the connection information in gnome.
Is there any way to truly test and know how is your speed transfer?
http://www.speedtest.net/
Should give you an idea
On 10/26/2010 11:06 AM, qsummon wrote:
>
> how can I test the speed of the connection?
> I’m taking that 2 mb/sec from the connection information in gnome.
> Is there any way to truly test and know how is your speed transfer?
A correct way to test is to have another computer connected by a wire to the
AP/router, then use iperf or some such utility to test the transfer rates
between the wireless and wired interfaces. Using speedtest.net or similar
Internet site, the rate will be limited to the lower of the speed of your
broadband connection, or the speed of the wireless link.
If you do not have another host on your LAN, then the next best thing is to look
at the speed of download for a large file, such as a CD image. If the wireless
is a lot slower than the speed of downloading with a wired connection, then your
wireless is the limiting factor. If they are about the same, then the broadband
connection is saturated with the wireless and there is nothing you can do.
I’m looking for something I can test my wireless card, not my internet connection
The issue here is, I’m seeing my wireless card connected at 2 mb/sec
I do not know if this is because I’m having the wrong driver, gnome is reporting me this wrong?
When I boot from windows the wireless connection is 130 mb/sec
How can I tell if this is connected at 2 mb/sec ?
AFAIK widows reports the max. possible speed, networkmanager reports the router’s current speed. I’m only 6 mtrs away from my router, see the speed go between 2Mbit/sec and 150Mbit/sec.
How does browsing/downloading feel? Normal or very slow?
I did the following test
In the notebook I’m using this network card I have windows 7 a and OPEN SUSE installed
I have copied the same file (4.6 GB) from my NFS/Samba server to a local drive and here are the result
Windows: 14 minutes
OPEN SUSE (I used the time command): 26m
Any idea why I’m seeing this?
Thanks