Driver broadcom opensuse 11.4

I just installed openSuse I have two questions: 1. The first page refers to downloading a firmware blob. If I install the firmware to the card, will it then stop working on the Windows side? This will download and self install.

Catch If Suse can't use the wireless card, how am I to get online to download this file? See related articles to this posting. You do not need to download a driver, just firmware. If you want to know the difference, that is covered in the stickies. The firmware is the code used by the CPU on the card. It is reloaded everytime the driver is initialized. It will not interfere with Windows. If you read the stickies at the start of this forum, the technique to sneakernet the necessary file into Linux is described.

Thanks for the guidance. Based on the following I could see that I am missing the firmware. I then ran the Suse script and got the following.

Apparently the script insists on looking online, which it can't yet do. Next I tried to install the firmware following the procedure from the Linuxwirelsss site. Where should I go from here? The error is due to an incorrect path to bfwcutter. That last post did it.

Thanks a lot to both of you. I am typing this from my working internet connection over Suse In a school environment this is not a good solution. Is this a Windows driver issue? Is there an easy fix? Blacklist ath5k as described on the madwifi page and reboot. Reboot, and it should work. Works correctly without any manual configuration. I very much expect this will work fine with no encryption or WEP. Flavor of your running kernel i. Use ndiswrapper and the drivers from the website.

Comes in self-extracting zip, use wine to extract. Works,perfect for me on Lenovo R61e from default install. Using both kde3 and kde4 with knetworkmanager which will auto start the connection again on Wake. You need to download the firmware, version 1. You need to download the firmware, version 2. Card almost works out of the box.

Then reload modules. Tested with 64 bits. Cannot update to current driver--seems to be the problem, and packagers could help out it would be great.

Must install package kernel-firmware. Configure module rtsta to load at boot. Works great with Network Manager. Not out of the box. Works right out of the box on D-Link DWA, rev. Lsusb: c15 D-Link Corp. Did not work with MTU Wireless Adapter. Works out of the box. I'm not the only one so be cautios when intending to buy it for an WPA encrypted environment.

Firmware package installed but wouldn't connect. Not tested unencrypted though. Both 32bit installs. Set up connections. Download wifi-radar and it connects. Did not need to install drivers. If the firmware is not available, no harm will come to your device, but it will not run. It is like your main CPU without an operating system.

BTW, a Google search of "brcm firmware" led me directly to the source of the firmware. The corresponding module is loaded at least as far as I can see Originally Posted by lwfinger. There it is WLAN is up and running now. Thank you again. Originally Posted by KovuTN. Ah, cool. No bug report is needed.