wireless and multimedia codecs for suse 11.2

[harishbayyavarapu]

Hi,

I had used ubuntu before for more than an year and wanted to use suse 11.2. I want to install wireless drivers for my wireless card

Output of lspci -vnn

0c:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g [14e4:4315] (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card [1028:000c]
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
	Memory at f69fc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
	Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
	Capabilities: [58] Vendor Specific Information <?>
	Capabilities: [e8] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
	Capabilities: [d0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
	Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
	Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel <?>
	Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number e2-c1-5f-ff-ff-11-00-22
	Capabilities: [16c] Power Budgeting <?>
	Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge

And my kernel is 
2.6.31.5-0.1-default

Can some one help in installing the wireless drivers for my laptop as quickly as possible please.

ALso I want to install the mutlimedia codecs . I tried to install the following and did not work. I was unable to play mp3 music and also even videos do not play.

zypper in libxine1-codecs libffmpeg0 w32codec-all k3b-codecs lame

PLease someone help in installing both the wireless drivers and also multimedia codecs for suse 11.2

[reed9]

Enable the packman repository. It has a number of non-free packages available, including some multimedia stuff and the broadcom wl driver you need for you wireless.

Or one click non-free packages here.

And a more comprehensive guide here.

[harishbayyavarapu]

The explanation is terrible in the link you have given. Is it so complex to install the wireless drivers in Suse 11.2
I enabled the packman repository. I selected broadcom-wl from the list and it installed all the dependencies and after the restart there is no wireless detected. I changed the network settings to traditional ifup and even there I dont seem to find the wl what the author was talking about in the link.

Can some one please help me with this please. Its horrible to have a laptop without wireless.

[harishbayyavarapu]

Alright I got the wireless working. I had to select different kernel at the bootloader. Now my question is how do I remove the old kernels from the disk. Because I only have 2 gb of left over space in / and I have 7 gb for my home directory. Also how do I clean up all the downloaded files from the packman repository or something.

I ran the command zypper clean -a and it cleaned everything in the zypp. Any suggestions of removing the extra files from the disk

Yesterday I tried to install netbeans ide from the command line
zypper install netbeans-ide. And I dont find the netbeans on my applications or anywhere. I need some suggestions of getting netbeans working.

[gogalthorp]

Go into Yast and remove the kernel you do not want.

How much space did you allow for the root partition. Your personal data gets stored in /home but temp data gets stored in / the root partition. So you could run out of space if you tried to burn a large DVD. Linux is not graceful when it runs out of Disk space and tends to simply lock up.

Since you have limited resources I recommend you set the /tmp to be cleared at boot up. This will clear any old temp files when you boot. Go to

Yast->System->SYS Config Editor - System - Cron - CLEAR_TMP_DIRS_AT_BOOT and set it to yes

[harishbayyavarapu]

Thank you very much for the help...
I have little more trouble. .wmv format files cannot be played. How do I get the codecs for playing wmv files.
And the netbeans I tried seems to be very old one. its version 6.5. the latest version is 6.8. I tried to update from the netbeans but Its not working. Also can some one help me in installing the lamp server.

[whych]

For .wav and windows sound files, you need w32codecs-all.
For LAMP server, go to yast2>software and filter on patterns and scroll down to server functions.
Try searching for netbeans at: software.opensuse.org/search