I have Dell Mini 9 on which I just installed openSUSE. Everything works fine except for wireless. It can detect my wired connection as well as my Verizon broadband device, but it will not detect or work with the wireless adapter. When I go into Hardware Information it shows up as BCM4312 802.11b/g. Is there something additional that I need to do?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Yes, there is, read the Stickies here:
This is interesting too: Wireless isn’t working. - VERY new user - openSUSE Forums
Note the RPM is available for openSUSE 11.1 – you don’t download and install the tar file.
Thanks for the info!
I read the link, it too complex, is there any simpler way as in Ubuntu?
Please forgive my lack of knowledge, but I am still having an issue getting the wireless to work. Reviewing the information that you have provide me, I do have a b43 (and b43legacy) directory under /lib/firmware. I am stuck at that point as to what to do next. If I do an ifconfig, it still does not show the wireless adapter (it shows eth0, lo, and pan0).
Any help would be greatly appreciated if you can overlook the n00b stamp on my forehead like the scarlet letter 
Please reread the stickies and provide the information described therein.
The diagnostic script I mentioned in one of the posts might be a very good point to start.
We still don’t have a clue which device you really have (and no, “BCM4312” is not sufficient, especially BCM4312 is no useful information).
Thanks for the response back. The ID code is 14e4:4315 (rev. 01). The other number was 03:00.0. I ran the dmesg | less command and I went through all 764 lines but did not see the wireless adapter. I found Bluetooth and Ethernet, but no wireless. I can confirm that the adapter worked with Windows prior to installing openSUSE. If I run /usr/sbin/iwconfig I get no wireless extensions next to lo, eth0, and pan0.
As suspected, have a look at this.