Hi,
a few month ago, i installed openSuse 10.3 on my HP NX6325 Laptop. After i found out that i had to install the “bcm43xx-firmware-0.noarch.rpm” package, WLAN works fine. But with openSuse 11.0 it doesn’t work. Has anybody a hint what i have to do? By the way: Do i still need Kinternet(i used it with openSuse 10.3)?
Many thanks
Nagilum
P.S.:Concerning Linux I’am a newbie…
Nagilum wrote:
> Hi,
>
> a few month ago, i installed openSuse 10.3 on my HP NX6325 Laptop.
> After i found out that i had to install the
> “bcm43xx-firmware-0.noarch.rpm” package, WLAN works fine. But with
> openSuse 11.0 it doesn’t work. Has anybody a hint what i have to do? By
> the way: Do i still need Kinternet(i used it with openSuse 10.3)?
>
> Many thanks
You should launch a terminal and type the command
sudo /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware
That will download the necessary files, unpack the firmware, and store
it in the proper directories.
If your wireless doesn’t work after that, please post the output of
the following commands:
ifconfig
iwconfig
dmesg | grep ssb
dmesg | grep b43
Larry
Thank you. I have now a functional wireless connection. KNetworkmanger don’t find the available networks at his own, so i have to enter the essid, but it works and that’s fine enough. 
But how i have to handle future versions of openSuse? I didn’t know that this little helper exists. Was this script/programm in openSuse 10.3 available, too? In 10.3 i have spend much time until i knew that a firmware is missing. Is there anywhere a central documentation where i can find such useful tips?
Greetings
Nagilum
Nagilum wrote:
> Thank you. I have now a functional wireless connection. KNetworkmanger
> don’t find the available networks at his own, so i have to enter the
> essid, but it works and that’s fine enough.
>
> But how i have to handle future versions of openSuse? I didn’t know
> that this little helper exists. Was this script/programm in openSuse
> 10.3 available, too? In 10.3 i have spend much time until i knew that a
> firmware is missing. Is there anywhere a central documentation where i
> can find such useful tips?
Yes, the equivalent script was there.
No matter what kind of problem you are having, always check the output
of dmesg first. It usually points you to the real problem.
Larry