I got my myself a new laptop (Compaq Presario CQ50-106AU) forChristmas. It came with Vista, but I’ve now got openSUSE 11.1 on it.
It’s working well except for wireless at this point.
It has an Atheros AR242X wireless card. I’d read on one of the forums, however when I do lspci -v | less it shows a broadcom bcm4312 card, and when i try to install the drivers it does not work nor does it show in iwconfig
can someone help me to configure my wireless card.
If you read the stickies at the start of this forum, you will learn
how to report the IDs for your device. Withoout them, we cannot advise
you.
Larry
Details of my wireless device.
1 ) make and model of wireless device.
Broadcom BCM4312 802.11b/g
2 ) driver version in use
Not Sure, however windows is using the default Broadcom driver
3 ) any error message.
No Error Message
4 ) what you have tried to rectify the problem.
Tried installing through ndiswrapper with the windows inf file
One click install from suse geek forum
5 ) any trouble-shooting guide you have tried to follow.
Suse Geek Forum
OpenSUSE Forum
6 ) openSUSE version
openSUSE 11.1
7 ) type /sbin/lspci -v" in a terminal; copy and paste the section that identifies your wireless card and it’s chipset.
07:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company BCM4312 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10
Memory at c2000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [58] Vendor Specific Information <?>
Capabilities: [e8] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Count=1/1 Enable-
Capabilities: [d0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
UESta: DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF- MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSVoil-
UEMsk: DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF- MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSVoil-
UESvrt: DLP+ SDES- TLP- FCP+ CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF+ MalfTLP+ ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSVoil-
CESta: RxErr+ BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- NonFatalErr+
CESta: RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- NonFatalErr+
AERCap: First Error Pointer: 14, GenCap+ CGenEn- ChkCap+ ChkEn-
Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel <?>
Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 21-00-2f-ff-ff-00-a8-3b
Capabilities: [16c] Power Budgeting <?>
Kernel modules: wl
8 ) if it is a usb device type lsusb in a terminal;copy and paste the result
no usb[/size]
Tried adding the firmware ? it’s in the stickie by Larry on how to install it
Andy
deltaflyer44 wrote:
> Tried adding the firmware ? it’s in the stickie by Larry on how to
> install it
Unfortunately, that may not do. BTW, you still have NOT reported the
PCI ID of your device as the stickies tell you to do. There are two
completely different versions of the BCM4312. One works with b43 - the
other does not.
I acheived a milestone, I tried installing the dell broadcom driver using ndiswrapper and that went through well and in the report it shows hardware present, however I can not have it to run or detech my wireless connection.
I installed Ndisgtk and the card shows present in the gui as well.
need help in that now, I am using gnome desktop, I did try out configuring the network setting however no luck there.
Regards
Devang
Dude’s, I have my wireless card working and am able to browse the internet, this was done using ndiswrapper…
However everytime I reboot I have to do modprobe ndiswrapper. Is there any way I can add the modprobe command to the boot script.
add ndiswrapper to modules_loaded_on_boot
Andy