My laptop has a dell wireless 1510 802.11n half-mini card installed. However, when I installed opensuse 11 on this new machine it unfortunately did not seem to detect the wireless as it is not listed as one of my network devices nor does it should up with ifconfig. My wired internet is working fine. Also, I am dual booting and my other OS can use the wireless connection with no problem.
How can I find and install the driver needed to make this card function in opensuse 11?
I am totally new to linux but i would suggest following the directions in the sticky that lwfinger posted in the wireless subforum of the network/internet forum
post your info in the wireless forum, someone will get back to you and and either help you proceed or maybe as they told me, that i need to use ndiswrapper because my card isnt comaptible wit h the other method. There is probably a list which would tell you if your BCM4322 is compatible, but i suggest posting in the wireless forum with as much info as the sticky request( people in the forum respond pretty quickly and the help is always efficient). I’m sure im not very helpful especially since i still dont have wireless access! Good Luck
Yep, I just got my wireless working with ndiswrapper. Here’s what I did in case someone else wants to get there card to work too:
# now to install the wireless ...
# login as root
su
# make sure the wireless card is detected (should be Broadcom's BCM4322)
/sbin/lspci -vv
# install the firmware for the wireless card
/usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware
# get a tool to rip the firware out of the windows version
wget http://bu3sch.de/b43/fwcutter/b43-fwcutter-011.tar.bz2
tar xjf b43-fwcutter-011.tar.bz2
cd b43-fwcutter-011
make
cd ..
# rip out and install the firmware
wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2
tar xjf broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2
cd broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/kmod
../../b43-fwcutter-011/b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware wl_apsta.o
# install ndiswrapper (adapts windows drivers to run in linux)
# use Yast2 software management, search for "ndiswrapper"
# ...
# now get the *windows* driver from here:
# (filename sp39243.exe)
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=321957&prodSeriesId=3442832&prodNameId=3442833&swEnvOID=1093&swLang=5&taskId=135&swItem=ob-60549-1&mode=3
# unpack the driver (.exe is really a cab file here)
cabextract sp39243.exe
# install the driver with ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf
# reboot
shutdown -r 0
# install the ndiswrapper kernel module and you
# should be able to connect to wireless networks
# (you may want to have this command execute automatically
# with your machine when it boots up)
modprobe ndiswrapper
# you should see wlan0 as a network device
iwconfig
My wireless is showing up in NetworkManger as inactive/greyed out/unavailable. I’m assuming that I’ll have to do some extra work like this fellow says to get it going?