wireless not working on Dell D630

I cannot get my wireless to work on Dell latitude D630 with OpenSuse 11.2 KDE

This is the output of ifconfig:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1C:23:53:C8:44
inet addr:192.168.0.144 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21c:23ff:fe53:c844/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:7817 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6478 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:9287180 (8.8 Mb) TX bytes:818716 (799.5 Kb)
Interrupt:17

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:88 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:88 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:5916 (5.7 Kb) TX bytes:5916 (5.7 Kb)

I don’t see wlan at all

Any help is appreciated.

Thank you,

Your wireless is not activated.

Did you turn it on?

Did you install the correct driver?

What’s your wireless card model? If you don’t know, run the following command as root in a terminal and post the result:

hwinfo --wlan

If it is like my wireless you need to run kinternet. Go to the program menu and type in Kinternet. It will open in the notification area. Right click on the link and select your device wlan0 most likely. When you are connected to your access point right click and go to wireless connections. From there you need to select your wireless point again and input your WEP key or whatever security there is. Also make sure you make it shared key or open key.

If it’s like my Dell (similar model), it’s Broadcom, and if it is, go here: b43 - Linux Wireless and scroll down to the installation instructions for OpenSUSE (you just have to type a code in the terminal)

On 11/28/2009 03:56 PM, xjake83 wrote:
>
> If it’s like my Dell (similar model), it’s Broadcom, and if it is, go
> here: ‘b43 - Linux Wireless’
> (http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43) and scroll down to the
> installation instructions for OpenSUSE (you just have to type a code in
> the terminal)

Before you get told a lot of things to do, you need to go the the
wireless forum (which is where this should have been posted) and read
the stickies. You will then know how to report what device you have, and
probably how to fix it.

if u using broadcom wireless
add packman repo, and instal broadcom-wl

The D610 was configured mostly with the broadcom card follow the link in the previous post as he is correct use yast to install and on the 610 there was a on/off switch put into the machine ( on some models) make sure the switch is turned on. then set up the connection…