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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
