I’m running SUSE 11.3 on a Dell Inspiron 1501 with a Broadcom BCM4311 wireless card. Everything looks like it is installed right, but when I try to connect to my wireless network I can’t see any networks. I’ve tried using network manager and ifup in yast and I’ve tried scanning for networks and entering the ssid manually and nothing works. Let me know if there’s anymore info you need.
As su -
do: /usr/sbin/install_bcm4311_firmware
I got /usr/sbin/install_bcm4311_firmware: No such file or directory
You could just use the wl driver instead
I do…
If you want to try, post back the result of
uname -a
zypper lr -d
uname -a
Linux linux-lb6v.site 2.6.34-12-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2010-06-29 02:39:08 +0200 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
zypper lr -d
| Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh | Priority | Type | URI | Service
—±--------------------------------------±--------------------------------------±--------±--------±---------±-------±--------------------------------------------------------------------------------±-------
1 | 11.3 | 11.3 | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /pub/vlc/SuSE/11.3/ |
2 | Packman | Packman | No | No | 99 | NONE | http://packman.unixheads.com/suse/11.3 |
3 | Updates for openSUSE 11.3 11.3-1.82 | Updates for openSUSE 11.3 11.3-1.82 | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /update/11.3 |
4 | openSUSE-11.3 11.3-1.82 | openSUSE-11.3 11.3-1.82 | Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | Index of /distribution/11.3/repo/oss |
5 | openSUSE-11.3-NonOSS-Add-on_11.3-1.80 | openSUSE-11.3-NonOSS-Add-on 11.3-1.80 | No | Yes | 99 | yast2 | Index of /source/distribution/11.3/repo/non-oss |
6 | openSUSE_11.3 | openSUSE_11.3 | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/KDE:/UpdatedApps/openSUSE_11.3 |
7 | openSUSE_11.3_1 | openSUSE_11.3 | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/KDE:/Extra/openSUSE_11.3 |
8 | openSUSE_11.3_2 | openSUSE_11.3 | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Playground/openSUSE_11.3 |
9 | openSUSE_11.3_3 | openSUSE_11.3 | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/Java:/packages/openSUSE_11.3 |
10 | openSUSE_11.3_4 | openSUSE_11.3 | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_11.3 |
11 | openSUSE_11.3_5 | openSUSE_11.3 | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/OpenOffice.org:/STABLE/openSUSE_11.3 |
12 | repo-debug | openSUSE-11.3-Debug | No | Yes | 99 | NONE | Index of /debug/distribution/11.3/repo/oss |
13 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.3-Non-Oss | Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | Index of /distribution/11.3/repo/non-oss |
14 | repo-source | openSUSE-11.3-Source | No | Yes | 99 | NONE | Index of /source/distribution/11.3/repo/oss |
15 | standard | standard | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/openSUSE:/11.3:/Contrib/standard |
Please enable repo number 2 Packman so it’s (Yes|Yes)
Then…
As su -
in a terminal do this:
zypper in broadcom-wl broadcom-wl-kmp-desktop
reboot.
On another note. If you have multimedia issues. Read this
Multi-media and Restricted Format Installation Guide
OK, I tried that and got
Retrieving repository ‘Packman’ metadata ]
Download (curl) error for ‘http://packman.unixheads.com/suse/11.3/repodata/repomd.xml’:
Error code: Connection failed
Error message: couldn’t connect to host
Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i/?] (a): a
Download (curl) error for ‘http://packman.unixheads.com/suse/11.3/content’:
Error code: Connection failed
Error message: couldn’t connect to host
Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i/?] (a): a
Retrieving repository ‘Packman’ metadata [error]
Repository ‘Packman’ is invalid.
Download (curl) error for ‘http://packman.unixheads.com/suse/11.3/content’:
Error code: Connection failed
Error message: couldn’t connect to host
Please check if the URIs defined for this repository are pointing to a valid repository.
Warning: Disabling repository ‘Packman’ because of the above error.
Loading repository data…
Reading installed packages…
‘broadcom-wl’ not found in package names. Trying capabilities.
No provider of ‘broadcom-wl’ found.
‘broadcom-wl-kmp-desktop’ not found in package names. Trying capabilities.
No provider of ‘broadcom-wl-kmp-desktop’ found.
Resolving package dependencies…
Nothing to do.
Do you have an active ethernet connection?
Yeah, I’m using a wired connection.
OK
Do this as su -
zypper rr 2
zypper ar -f http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/11.3/ packman
zypper ref
accept any keys
zypper in broadcom-wl broadcom-wl-kmp-desktop
OK, it’s working now. I’ll let you know what happens after I reboot.
That fixed it, I can now see a few wireless networks. Thanks for all your help.
No worries. Happy to help a little 