Nice! I made some progress by installing the packman repo and run
zypper in broadcom-wl broadcom-wl-kmp-desktop
Now, the wlan interface is at least recognized, but when I first selected to connect to my home network, it starts to load up but gets stuck on “Configuring interface” and fails to fully connect, then kind of restarts and keeps trying to connect without success.
Now, after a reboot, it isn’t even finding my home network (although it is present under Manage Connections [V3xT3 – Last used: Never] presumably from the time I was able to pick up the signal), which my brother verifies from right next to me is working with a strong signal (and we are only about 10 meters away from the access point).
xait9@linux-1kp7:~> dmesg | grep eth
7.905041] eth0: Broadcom BCM4328 802.11 Hybrid Wireless Controller 5.60.48.36
7.959335] eth1: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95906) rev c002] (PCI Express) MAC address 00:21:9b:e8:e0:46
7.959342] eth1: attached PHY is 5906 (10/100Base-TX Ethernet) (WireSpeed[0])
7.959346] eth1: RXcsums[1] LinkChgREG[0] MIirq[0] ASF[0] TSOcap[0]
7.959350] eth1: dma_rwctrl[76180000] dma_mask[64-bit]
7.964661] eth0 renamed to eth0_rename by udevd [380]
8.010401] eth1 renamed to eth0 by udevd [371]
8.011500] udev: renamed network interface eth1 to eth0
8.015832] eth0_rename renamed to eth1 by udevd [380]
8.016975] udev: renamed network interface eth0_rename to eth1
32.047507] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
42.881262] eth1: no IPv6 routers present
302.707812] tg3: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
302.707812] tg3: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX.
302.709350] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
304.849414] martian source 255.255.255.255 from 169.254.1.192, on dev eth0
313.579174] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
789.295246] tg3: eth0: Link is down.
803.872257] tg3: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
803.872257] tg3: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX.
805.413684] martian source 255.255.255.255 from 169.254.1.192, on dev eth0
1027.118865] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
1028.728726] tg3: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
1028.728726] tg3: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX.
1028.729367] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
1039.182086] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
1045.388067] eth1: no IPv6 routers present
1090.520934] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
1092.106315] tg3: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
1092.106330] tg3: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX.
1092.107166] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
1095.770909] martian source 255.255.255.255 from 169.254.1.192, on dev eth0
1102.729471] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
1127.228806] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
1128.817482] tg3: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
1128.817482] tg3: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX.
1128.819031] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
1137.286297] eth1: no IPv6 routers present
1139.246147] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
1257.848011] SFW2-OUT-ERROR IN= OUT=eth0 SRC=192.168.1.10 DST=130.57.4.15 LEN=40 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=48293 DPT=443 WINDOW=0 RES=0x00 RST URGP=0
1406.165019] tg3: eth0: Link is down.
1521.956995] tg3: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
1521.956995] tg3: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX.
1523.338968] martian source 255.255.255.255 from 192.168.1.4, on dev eth0
^^^^This output was generated while I was connected to the working wired connection.
xait9@linux-1kp7:~> /usr/sbin/iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth1 IEEE 802.11 Access Point: Not-Associated
Link Quality:5 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 invalid crypt:0 invalid misc:0
eth0 no wireless extensions.
xait9@linux-1kp7:~> sudo /usr/sbin/iwlist scan
root's password:
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.
eth1 Failed to read scan data : Invalid argument
eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
Any suggestions? Hopefully I didn’t mess up any necessary files while trying to upgrade kernel versions. My /usr/src/ directory only has a directory called packages in it now, as I deleted all the files that I had put in it to try to upgrade to 2.6.31.12.0.2
xait9@linux-1kp7:~> uname -a
Linux linux-1kp7 2.6.31.12-0.2-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2010-03-16 21:25:39 +0100 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Although I didn’t finish upgrading properly, the uname commmand returns the version number that I was trying to upgrade to… Maybe I should do a clean install from the dvd and add the packman driver again from there? Thanks for any help.