Hello ,
I have bought a new Insipirion 1464.Installed a OpenSuse 11.0 ,Gnome Desktop .
I dont have wireless connectivity in my laptop(i hve never used Wireless ).
I have done following step
1)Checked for wireless card in Hardware Information
==> was present
Wireless 1397 wlan min-card from broadcom family
2)Checked for firmware
dmesg|grep firmware
==>no output
3)Then checked for access points
linux-rhse:/home/prakhar # dmesg|grep firmware
linux-rhse:/home/prakhar #
linux-rhse:/home/prakhar # sudo /usr/sbin/iwlist scan
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.
eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
pan0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
You posted in the correct forum, but you have not read the stickies here. Those
are the 3 articles that always remain at the head of the forum. I can tell that
you have not read them for two reasons: (1) You used a subject that the stickies
say you should not, and (2) you do not provide us with critical information.
Dell has sold DW1397 devices with at least two different wireless chips embedded
in them. What you do next depends on which of them you have.
Please run the following command:
/sbin/lspci -nnv | grep 14e4
If it reports “14e4:4315”, you have a low-power device. To use it, you need to
use kernel 2.6.32 or later. You can obtain a 2.6.33 kernel from the Factory
repo. You can also support it with the closed-source Broadcom wl package from
the Packman repo.
Thanks for reply … in trying for wireless
i have lost ethernet connection also
my network manager says eth0 no carrier
…
Need help urgently
On 03/06/2010 09:56 AM, prakhar3003 wrote:
>
> Thanks for reply … in trying for wireless
> i have lost ethernet connection also
> my network manager says eth0 no carrier
> .
> Need help urgently
Provide the requested information.