Wireless troubles firmware installed

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#1

Ok, so I installed Suse 11.0 32bit on an old laptop. I couldnt get the wireless to work so I found the thread here and downloaded and installed the firmware for my broadcom device. Here are the results of running the command ‘/usr/sbin/iwconfig’

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wmaster0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
Encryption key:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

Next running the command ‘sudo /usr/sbin/iwlist scan’ yeilds these results:

lo Interface doesn’t support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn’t support scanning.

wmaster0 Interface doesn’t support scanning.

wlan0 No scan results

Any help would be greatly appreciated

#2

What do you see when you run the command ‘dmesg | grep b43’?

Larry

#3

I get the following output:

b430-phy0: Broadcom 4318 WLAN found
input: b43-phy0 as /devices/virtual/input/input8
b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 410.2160 (2007-05-26 15:32:10)
Registered led device: br3-phy0::radio
b43-phy0: Radio hardware status changed to DISABLED

#4

farp wrote:

> b43-phy0: Radio hardware status changed to DISABLED

Your wireless-enable switch is OFF. I don’t know what it looks like on
your laptop, but you need to toggle it.

Larry

#5

Lol thanks. I tried that earlier and it didnt work but now it does.