I just installed opensuse 11.1. After installation if i go to hardware I see my wireless adapter(i think it refers to it as broadcom). But in my network settings it isn’t there. I then used a wireless usb device and i could see a wireless device listed. Still couldn’t connect to a network although I could see networks listed. Then i removed key and rebooted. Now I see something listed as unknown network device(with no option to delete even though I can delete my hardwire ethernet device if i want).
Perhaps my information wasn’t enough. Under device name it lists BCM43XG. It shows in network settings that a have a device that is not configured. It lists it as an ethernet device as opposed to a wireless device. But I have no option to change that. If I choose ‘edit’ as it suggest that I should in order to configure it, then there isn’t much I can choose to change. I tried changing device name, I select ‘change’ beside device name, then I check ‘device name’ and type in BCM43XG…I click ‘ok’, then it brings me back where I started…no device name is listed. Then only other options I could choose beside device name in hardware is whethere I want DHCP(which I do) or DHCP+zeroconf, etc…
It is a linksys wireless-N pci card(forgot to mention that in my previous post.
How can it be listed as a wireless device in yast under hardware with tons information…yet under network settings it says not configured and ‘noinfo’ listed beside that?
I’ve noticed that sometime - the wireless card is listed but the driver in SuSE cannot seem to use it. I’ve always used the ndiswrapper package. It’s easy to install and use but the one catch is that you have to obtain the Windows driver for your machine. Sometimes someone on this forum can help you get the driver. I have a BCM4311 or I would offer to help.
With the driver in-hand, I just installed ndiswrapper and kndisinstaller and ran kndisinstaller to install the driver, then in network settings you have to set the driver to “ndiswrapper”, modprobe ndiswrapper, and reboot.