Suse 11.1 and wireless Card Broadcom B43
 

Dose any one know how to make Broadcom wireless card work on Suse 11.1 32bit, i have it on laptop HP Compaq 6720s and eth0 is working fine but wireless can card can not detect any wireless network , when it was working fine on Suse 11.0 32bit after update B43 driver , but when i did the same with 11.1 , it did not work :cry:.

Thank You

yeap did it three times this week here is the links.http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Broadcom_...ion_under_SUSE
read it there is two ways to do it. one is the open source driver and firmware the I use on every distro it works the best. or ndiswrapper. I use this link it is well done and gives you all the options and info for different broadcom chips and how to know your exact chip.http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43

Thank you for the link and here what i did
 

thank you so much for your help and here what i did so no one will need to go though the all page again , it's very simple 2 steps if you have
Suse 11.1
Broadcom wireless card

Step 1 :
# install_bcm43xx_firmware
Step 2 :
# modprobe b43

thats all , i did not reload network or reboot , just search for wireless network and you will connect .

do not for get the fm-cutter

modprobe b43
 

i did the steps i mentioned before and it was working fine till i restart , when i restart i have to repeat the last command " modprobe b43 " to load the driver , but i do not want keep it this way , i do not know how to make it load by it self every time i reboot

any one knows ?

Look in the /etc/sysconfig/kernel file. There are configuration items where you can the b43 module.
Either "MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT" or "INITRD_MODULES" should work. If you use the latter, you will need to run "sudo /sbin/mkinitrd" to recreate your initrd file.

Also run "sudo /sbin/depmod -a" and "sudo /sbin/ldconfig" for good measure.

If you look in YaST2, there is an "/etc/sysconfig editor" GUI module. You can edit the /etc/sysconfig/kernel file that way as well.

In order to get the broadcom driver to automatically load when the system boots I did the following under Suse 11.1.

add the following command the line before the bottom of file: /etc/init.d/rc
(e.g. right before the exit 0 at the bottom)

modprobe b43

The /etc/init.d/rc will be executed only once when the system boots just about when all the other stuff has been started. it worked for me. The /etc/init.d/rc file is the same as /etc/rc.local in other flavors of linux.

Hope that helps.
Frank

there still is a problem hal should be loading the module I believe you have it on the blacklist which means you will have to take it off.and the old bcm43xx I know is black listed.because the b43legacy is supposed to have taken it's place. my black list is in the /etc/modprobe.d blacklist bcm43xx the reason they had to do this is because the modules and the firmware seem to confuse the kernel during boot time. the kernel loads it then hal run and detects it then loads another. on the 2.6.27.7 my old bcm43xx all three modules loaded and really causes a slow down on the hardware wifi card.
small sample of my blacklist file comes with all distros.
# Deprecated BCM43xx driver. List it here so it won't conflict with
# b43 or b43legacy drivers.
blacklist bcm43xx
another problem is b44 likes to load first from the kernel and then hal does not load the b43legacy. do a lsmod and see if b44 is loading and make.
last but not least I run the oldest bcm43xx and I no longer can use it. because the 2.6.27 and up wants you to use the b43legacy. and it does work better. the new helper modules that go with it require the new b43legacy and the new b43-fwcutter and the new firmware. I am sure Suse 11. has that package and has been updated. every one else has for over 6 moths or more.