Unable to connect to wi-fi in suse 11.3

[abhinav4]

Hi i am using Dell 1395 WLAN Mini- Card in my laptop. I have recently installed open suse 11.3 in my computer. The problem is i am unable to connect to wifi.

[oz]

Here's a good place to start for troubleshooting the problem:

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/wir...tart-here.html

[mohankrsna]

Hi.
I have an hp nx6120 laptop and i have done it successfully.This is what i have done

1. Open terminal and sign in as root user by typing
su
then give your root password.
2.First, try to run this in the command line:
hwinfo --wlan

Sample output:
15: PCI 204.0: 0282 WLAN controller
[Created at pci.318]
Unique ID: y9sn.YKGhZLpq9I0
Parent ID: 6NW+.jRJMeyuQq_4
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:02:04.0
SysFS BusID: 0000:02:04.0
Hardware Class: network
Model: "Hewlett-Packard Company Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN"
Vendor: pci 0x14e4 "Broadcom"
Device: pci 0x4318 "BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller"
SubVendor: pci 0x103c "Hewlett-Packard Company"
SubDevice: pci 0x1356 "Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN"
Revision: 0x02
Driver: "b43-pci-bridge"
Driver Modules: "ssb"
Device File: wlan0
Features: WLAN
Memory Range: 0xd0000000-0xd0001fff (rw,non-prefetchable)
IRQ: 21 (no events)
HW Address: 00:14:a5:2a:4b:e4
Link detected: yes
WLAN channels: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
WLAN frequencies: 2.412 2.417 2.422 2.427 2.432 2.437 2.442 2.447 2.452 2.457 2.462 2.467 2.472 2.484
WLAN encryption modes: WEP40 WEP104 TKIP CCMP
WLAN authentication modes: open sharedkey wpa-psk wpa-eap
Module Alias: "pci:v000014E4d00004318sv0000103Csd00001356bc02sc8 0i00"
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: ssb is active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe ssb"
Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #10 (PCI bridge)

4.Identify your chipset from the above highlighted line in my case it is
pci 0x4318 "BCM 4318".

5. Type the following command
usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware

6. The driver will get installed. Reboot your system.

You will automatically connected to the network using KnetworkManager.