On Sat, 2007-10-13 at 20:49 -0400, Steve Jacobs wrote:
> I've searched messages on this list, and haven't seen a solution to this yet.
> 
> I've got a Dell lnspiron 8500, with the Dell TrueMobile 1300 wireless card.
> 
> Under Win XP, and Suse 10.1 or 10.2 a long time ago using ndiswrapper,
> the wireless card works.
> 
> My wireless network uses WPA2-Personal, AES.
> 
> I've just installed openSuse 10.3 (32-bit). Following the install, the
> wireless would not connect. I saw in the install notes that if the
> network uses a non-broadcast ESSID, I may need to remove the intel
> wireless driver installed by default, and the other will install
> automatically. n my system neither of those intel drivers was
> installed by default.
> 
> As my wireless card is Broadcom, not Intel, I guessed that was why
> neither was installed, and also guessed neither will work for me.

Do you know which broadcom chip it uses? Some will work without using
ndiswrapper. Mine uses the bcm43xx and I needed to use bcm43xx-fwcutter
to extract the firmware to /lib/firmware and I also had to turn on SSID
broadcast.

-- 
Ken Schneider
UNIX  since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE  since 1998

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