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OpenSuse 11.1: Broadcom bcm43xx Wireless Card. Painless installation in 2 steps. January 17th, 2009
Wireless card compatibility and installation is been always one of the down sides of installing Linux in a laptop and thanks to that I got involved in a love-hate relationship with fwcutter and ndiswrapper for a long time. But after Ubuntu 8.04 was released everything changed when it recognised my Broadcom wireless card on the first boot and all the steps to blacklist drivers and extract firmwares faded in the past.
Yesterday, I installed OpenSuse 11.1 in my laptop in order to give KDE 4.1 a try and I faced the fact that it did not recognise my wireless card after the installation. At that point I had to decide between going through the pain of getting the drivers, extracting the firmware and so on or just do some more research to find out if this new version of OpenSuse has a simple way of doing it. After some research I found a solution:
Just run this:
/usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware
After it is done restart the network service.
/etc/init.d/network restart
It worked perfectly.
It seems that this new script is part of the distribution in order to make this process simpler but still not as automated as Ubuntu.
Tags: bcm43xx, Linux, OpenSuse, OpenSuse 11.1, Wireless Card installation
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