WLAN 1397 mini-card Prob

hi everybody

i’ve just installed openSUSE 11.3 on my dell studio xps 1640. but i have problem with my WLAN . it’s a WLAN 1640 mini-card and i think there is no problem with driver. because it seems that it’s installed correctly but i can’t see any wireless networks (it says “Device is not ready”).

is there any suggestions?

by the way, when i turn my wireless to on (it’s a touch key not a switch) only my bluetooth indicator is enabled not my wifi indicator.

thakns everyone.

Please post result of

/sbin/lspci -nnk

On 12/17/2010 02:36 PM, Firouziam wrote:
>
> hi everybody
>
> i’ve just installed openSUSE 11.3 on my dell studio xps 1640. but i
> have problem with my WLAN . it’s a WLAN 1640 mini-card and i think there
> is no problem with driver. because it seems that it’s installed
> correctly but i can’t see any wireless networks (it says “Device is not
> ready”).
>
> is there any suggestions?
>
> by the way, when i turn my wireless to on (it’s a touch key not a
> switch) only my bluetooth indicator is enabled not my wifi indicator.
>
> thakns everyone.

I think you 1397 is some kind of Broadcom device, but I don’t know which one. I
don’t think that all 1397s are the same. Thus, as usual, we need to know what
it is. Post the results of


/sbin/lspci -nnk

You only need to post the network parts of the above.

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub [8086:2a40] (rev 07)

    Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0272]

00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Graphics Port [8086:2a41] (rev 07)

    Kernel driver in use: pcieport

00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:2937] (rev 03)

    Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0272]

    Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1a.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 [8086:2938] (rev 03)

    Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0272]

    Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1a.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 [8086:2939] (rev 03)

    Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0272]

    Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1a.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 [8086:293c] (rev 03)

    Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0272]

    Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd

00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:293e] (rev 03)

    Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0272]

    Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel

00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:2940] (rev 03)

    Kernel driver in use: pcieport

00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 [8086:2942] (rev 03)

    Kernel driver in use: pcieport

00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4 [8086:2946] (rev 03)

    Kernel driver in use: pcieport

00:1c.5 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 6 [8086:294a] (rev 03)

    Kernel driver in use: pcieport

00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:2934] (rev 03)

    Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0272]

    Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:2935] (rev 03)

    Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0272]

    Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:2936] (rev 03)

    Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0272]

    Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 [8086:293a] (rev 03)

    Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0272]

    Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd

00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev 93)

00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller [8086:2919] (rev 03)

    Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0272]

00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller [8086:2929] (rev 03)

    Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0272]

    Kernel driver in use: ahci

00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller [8086:2930] (rev 03)

    Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0272]

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility HD 3670 [1002:9593]

    Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0272]

    Kernel driver in use: radeon

01:00.1 Audio device [0403]: ATI Technologies Inc RV635 Audio device [Radeon HD 3600 Series] [1002:aa20]

    Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0272]

    Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel

04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01)

    Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card [1028:000c]

    Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge

08:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5784M Gigabit Ethernet PCIe [14e4:1698] (rev 10)

    Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0272]

    Kernel driver in use: tg3

09:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller [1180:0832] (rev 05)

    Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0272]

    Kernel driver in use: ohci1394

09:01.1 SD Host controller [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter [1180:0822] (rev 22)

    Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0272]

    Kernel driver in use: sdhci-pci

09:01.2 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter [1180:0592] (rev 12)

    Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0272]

09:01.3 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller [1180:0852] (rev 12)

    Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0272]

code added by me :slight_smile: caf4926

Follow this. Read it carefully. It links to other guides too as part of the directions
Install Broadcom Drivers from Packman

sorry for delay.
thanks for your help.

No problem