I am new to Linux and eager to learn how to add devices with YaST or by other means too.

My platform is an Acer, Aspire 3004NWLMI, Sempron 1.8GHz. My XP environment works flawlessly. My BIOS is 3A33 and I have the SuSE 10.2 DVD S/W.

Both OS's work and load well with GRUB, but I can't get to the net via WiFI.

Please help.

just search this forum or google for "broadcom and ndiswrapper" and you will find the much discussed process you need. Broadcoms are not fully supported by linux yet, but this ndiswrapper utility lets you use the windows .inf driver to make it work. I have opensuse 10.2 with the broadcom 4311 working just fine.

http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?showtopic=29072

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/m...p/Installation

install ndiswrapper from yast
its technically done BUT
in your thingy you are missing a step - to make wireless start on boot
you need to boot yast and go to network devices>network card (with knetworkmanager)
and then add
device type wireless (duh)
configuration name wlan0
leave everything the same
then add ndiswrapper to module name
next next blah blah look over it if you need necessary changes like WPA
you are really done after that

FIRST
on broadcomm wireless - the driver opensuse 10.2 installs is really screwed up....

ndiswrapper is the answer but there is a small gotya in opensuse 10.2

1) put in your DVD and open Yast, software management. in the search - type in ndiswrapper, click the top one. this installs ndiswrapper
2) in the command line move to your windows driver for ndiswrapper. For my Compaq R3460US i use bcmwl5.inf. i will use bcmwl5.inf for this
3) type ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5 -m
4) goto /etc/modprobe.d and type kate ( or gedit ) blacklist.... ( kate blacklist )
5) add in that file ( # means a comment )
# blacklist initial opensuse 10.2 broadcom drivers
blacklist bcm43xx
6) go back to Yast
Yast - Network Devices - Network card - and select Traditional Network setup
7) DELETE the wireless card- and save
8) re-start Yast, and go to the same place and edit the wireless card
9) in the configuration make sure wireless is selested, and on boot up use ndiswrapper. most of the other settings can most likely be lest alone, depending on your network.....

this should work - But IF suse installed the bcm43xx drivers and they do not work ( as in every broadcomm chipset wireless I have played with iin opensuse 10.2 ) you have to black list the bcm43xx ---- Otherwise ndiswrapper will not function.

Fedora Core 6 has the same problems with the bcm43xx drivers..... So this is not only an opensuse issue.

This is in case you do have a broadcomm... but I had to do the same on opensuse 10.2 for my rt2500 pci card on my desktop. this is if you really can not get ndiswrapper to work.

You can always find out if opensuse 10.2 has already installed a driver by looking at Yast ( location listed above)

Hi guys

I have been trying to configure my wireless card on my Dell Inspiron 1501 Notebook.
I have performed all the steps given in various forms on installing wireless card and get it working.
When I do ndiswrapper -l, I get following output.
bcmwl5 : driver installed
device (14E4:4311) present
I am have tried to configure the wireless card using yast but I am unable to get it working.

Can anyone help me here please. I would really appreciate that.

Thanks

Shaun

now from a root konsole type:
then go into yast and set up your wireless card be sure to put ndiswrapper as the module and set it to load on boot ... then add your other settings ... essid dns gateway wep/wpa ect ect