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Broadcom drivers

Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2015 1:30 pm
by knixter
Help, please.
I am trying to get opensuse working on my pc. I cannot get the wifi to work.
The really annoying part about that is it works right out of the box (so to speak) with your cd. I am currently using it right now.
Would you please tell me which version of Linux you are based on and what driver(s) you use?
My card is a bcm4312 pc-id 14e4:4329
Thanks in advance
Merry Christmas, Happy New year

Re: Broadcom drivers

Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2015 11:00 pm
by The Piney
It would help to post at the Opensuse site.

If you have a wired connection available, you could try updating the system that way and maybe you'll get the driver for the wifi.

Good luck...

Re: Broadcom drivers

Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2016 4:07 pm
by phoenix00
Unless something has changed the past year or so, I believe Broadcom is (still) one of the vendors who restrict distribution of the firmware blob.

Start and go from here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/broadcom_wireless

Disclaimer: my only Broadcom-equipped laptop is ages old, so not a good test subject.