wireless problem after shifting to 10.3

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#1

hello. i shifted my hp 2133’s SLED 10 to openSUSE 10.3; since then, i haven’t been able to use wireless. DSL works fine. I followed the sticky, here are the results:

> /sbin/lspci

02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4310 USB Controller (rev 01)

07:03.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5788 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03)

> /sbin/lspci-n

02:00.0 Class 0280: 14e4:4315 (rev 01)

07:03.0 Class 0200: 14e4:169c (rev 03)

> dmesg | less

eth0: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95788) rev 3003 PHY(5705)] (PCI:33MHz:32-bit) 10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet 00:1f:29:98:75:3a

eth0: RXcsums[1] LinkChgREG[0] MIirq[0] ASF[0] WireSpeed[0] TSOcap[1]

eth0: dma_rwctrl[763f0000] dma_mask[32-bit]

help please?

#2

Tried installing the firmware as per lwfinger’s instructions ?

Andy

#3

BCM4310 USB does not work with b43 (yet).

You need to use ndiswrapper, which is what you must have been using
with 10.3

Larry

#4

nope didnt try installing firmware, is that what i’m missing?
how do i use ndiswrapper?
sorry. too much of a confused penguin here. it’s my first time to use a linux

#5

As larry has pointed out,b43 doesn’t work with your device, so you won’t be able to use it for the firmware. Ndiswrapper howto’s are here and Ndiswrapper - openSUSE

Andy

#6

hello, confused penguin here again.
already did the ff:

  1. installed ndiswrapper from the suse dvd
  2. downloaded the windows driver from the hp website… its a .exe file.
  3. figured i needed wine, so downloaded a package, it’s now in my desktop… problem is, dunno how to install it.

i need to install wine, use it to run the driver setup, then run ndiswrapper, correct?

any howtos on these?:shame: