I *think* it is the bcm4306. I read about the fwcutter bit, but thought that since I saw a line for bcm43xx in modprobe -l, I didn't need to pursue that.
Obviously I don't completely understand modprobe, or how these pieces all tie together. I always thought firmware referred to code inside a chip on a piece of hardware (flash-rom). Are the .ko files displayed when I do a 'modprobe -l' the installed device drivers? If bcm43xx.ko & ndiswrapper.ko are listed, than that means the drivers I need are present, right? I'll try fwcutter and see what happens. Thanks, Steve On 10/13/07, Kenneth Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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] > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
