Starting Broadcom (bcm43xx) automatically

[sailing_seagull]

Hello!

I have an AirForce Broadcom wlan card. Everytime I start the computer I have to go into a shell and type with root-rights "modprobe bcm43xx". How can the wlan card start automatically when I boot the system?

I already tried to add "install bcm43xx" into /etc/modprobe.conf but KNetworkManager doesn't catch any waves after rebooting the notebook.

And when I start the wlan card manually in the shell, I get something like "error in line ... Ignore." but KNetworkManager recognizes the routers in the vicinity afterwards again.

I have OpenSuse 10.3

Thanks for your help.

Seagull

[Kieren]

One solution is to create a bash script to execute the command "modprobe bcm43xx" automatically on boot up. To do this create the following bash script and save it in /etc/init.d/ - you can call the file what you like. Let's say you call it broadcom

#!/bin/bash

modprobe bcm43xx

Then to get the script to execute on bootup type:

chkconfig -a broadcom

Remember to change broadcom above to whatever you called your file

[waterhead]

There is another way you can do this in openSUSE.

Open the file /etc/sysconfig/kernel with a text editor (as root). Find this section:

## Type:        string
## ServiceRestart:    boot.loadmodules
#
# This variable contains the list of modules to be loaded
# once the main filesystem is active
# You will find a few default modules for hardware which
# can not be detected automatically.
#
MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT=""

Add your module so that it looks like this.

MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT="bcm43xx"

You can have multiple modules in this line, just separate them with a space and surround all of them with one set of quotation marks.

You can also edit this same file using YaST. Open the Sysconfig section and find the kernel section.