I have been trying to get by Broadcom BCM4312 wireless card to work with OpenSuse 11.1.
Following the directions in the sticky post of the wireless forum. I tried installing
the firmware using
sudo /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware
This resulted in nothing being listed in the dmesg output.
I downloaded the XP drivers and installed ndiswrapper. I can run:
iwlist wlan0 scan essid any
which provides a list of the wireless signals in my vicinity. However, I still cannot
connect with the signal. Firefox still cannot find the server for any web page I try.
The frustrating this is that this worked right out of the box in Ubuntu, but I’d like to
use OpenSuse.
Any help would be appreciated.
Other output is:
lspci | grep Broadcom
05:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)
lspci -n
05:00.0 0280: 14e4:4315 (rev 01)
dmesg
ndiswrapper (link_pe_images:575): fixing KI_USER_SHARED_DATA address in the driver
ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,09/20/2007, 4.170.25.12) loaded
acpi device:22: registered as cooling_device1
input: Video Bus as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A08:00/device:1f/device:20/inp
ut/input7
ACPI: Video Device [VGA] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no)
vendor=1002 device=7915
ndiswrapper 0000:05:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
ndiswrapper 0000:05:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
ndiswrapper: using IRQ 17
ACPI: AC Adapter [ADP1] (off-line)
wlan0: ethernet device 00:23:4d:93:b5:d5 using NDIS driver: bcmwl5, version: 0x4aa190
c, NDIS version: 0x501, vendor: ‘NDIS Network Adapter’, 14E4:4315.5.conf
wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK; AES/CCMP with W
PA, WPA2, WPA2PSK
iwconfig
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:“MyWifi” Nickname:“linux-cazx”
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:21:29:A8:92:B5
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power:32 dBm
RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
Encryption key:--** Security mode:open
Power Management:off
Link Quality:95/100 Signal level:-35 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:18 Invalid misc:132342 Missed beacon:0
From /var/log/messages
Jan 1 20:41:51 linux-cazx syslog-ng[1924]: Configuration reload request received, reloading configuration;
Jan 1 20:41:51 linux-cazx syslog-ng[1924]: New configuration initialized;
Jan 1 20:41:51 linux-cazx ifdown: wlan0 device: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)
Jan 1 20:41:51 linux-cazx ifup-dhcp:
Jan 1 20:41:51 linux-cazx ifup-dhcp: wlan0 IP address: 10.10.10.104/24 (linux-cazx)
Jan 1 20:41:52 linux-cazx ifup-route: Error while executing:
Jan 1 20:41:52 linux-cazx ifup-route: Command ‘ip route replace to 10.10.10.102/24 via 10.10.10.1 dev wlan0’ returned:
Jan 1 20:41:52 linux-cazx ifup-route: RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument
Jan 1 20:41:52 linux-cazx ifup-route: Configuration line: 10.10.10.102 10.10.10.1 255.255.255.0 wlan0
Jan 1 20:41:52 linux-cazx SuSEfirewall2: Setting up rules from /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2 …
Jan 1 20:41:52 linux-cazx ifup: wlan0 device: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)
Jan 1 20:41:52 linux-cazx SuSEfirewall2: using default zone ‘ext’ for interface pan0
Jan 1 20:41:52 linux-cazx SuSEfirewall2: using default zone ‘ext’ for interface wlan0
Jan 1 20:41:52 linux-cazx SuSEfirewall2: Another SuSEfirewall2 with PID 8576 found, waiting …
Jan 1 20:41:52 linux-cazx SuSEfirewall2: batch committing…
Jan 1 20:41:52 linux-cazx SuSEfirewall2: Firewall rules successfully set
Jan 1 20:41:54 linux-cazx kernel: klogd 1.4.1, ---------- state change ----------
Jan 1 20:41:54 linux-cazx SuSEfirewall2: Setting up rules from /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2 …
Jan 1 20:41:54 linux-cazx SuSEfirewall2: using default zone ‘ext’ for interface pan0
Jan 1 20:41:54 linux-cazx SuSEfirewall2: using default zone ‘ext’ for interface wlan0
Jan 1 20:41:55 linux-cazx SuSEfirewall2: batch committing…
Jan 1 20:41:55 linux-cazx SuSEfirewall2: Firewall rules successfully set
Jan 1 20:41:55 linux-cazx dhcpcd[8093]: wlan0: exiting
And finally,
ifup wlan0 output
wlan0 device: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)
DHCP4 client is already running on wlan0
Error while executing:
Command ‘ip route replace to 10.10.10.102/24 via 10.10.10.1 dev wlan0’ returned:
RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument
Configuration line: 10.10.10.102 10.10.10.1 255.255.255.0 wlan0