MPDK


Pages

Aug 11, 2009

How to Driver Your Web Card in Opensuse(In Particular BCM4311/BCM4312/BCM4321/BCM4322 Wireless)?

Opensuse has a very high supporting on Windows driver. It may use windows drivers to driver the ware on many kind of computers. In my experience, sound cards and web cards are be supported very well. But, for the recent ware, there is no information and reference about its showing. So, I am sure that for the driver before half a year ago it will done.
The following is a process about how to driver your web card,
in particular BCM4311/BCM4312/BCM4321/BCM4322 Wireless,
on Opensuse. Before the formal steps, you have to make sure the following software had been install in your system.
ndiswrapper, wireless-tools, wavemon, kdenetwork3-wireless,
(After you done the complete process but web not be driven, then please install ndiswrapper--kmp-[default|smp|xen].)
Now, we start the formal steps. A general ideal is download .inf and .sys program which satisfy your computer's driver and use ndiswrapper to install your drive.
Step1. Make sure what the web card ID is in your computer.
In my way, I search My computer's ts in original webset and download its web driver. But, that is not useful, since what we need is .inf and .sys program. So, we google
"OrigninalDriver'sname"+.inf+.sys
, and I think it is not hard to find your exact driver program.
Here, I have a web page providing bcmwl6.inf and bcmwl6.sys
http://www.freedrive.com/file/253326,bcmwl6.inf
Download it.

Step2. Create a new folder and name bcmwXX; anyway you can type the following command in your terminal
mkdir bcmwXX
, and then move your download program into this folder.

Step3. Install driver and run it. All You need is to type the command that
ndiwraspper -i /the path of your folder/bcmwXX.inf (in your terminal)
ndiwraspper -l
Step4. If your chip card is the ID that I list above, please go to the following web and do what it suggest. That is to install something and just to check the 1-check-install
http://www.susegeek.com/networking/fix-bcm4311431243214322-wireless-in-opensuse-111-and-earlier/
How to check your chip card ID? To type the following command
mpdk@mpdk-laptop:~/Desktop$ lspci | grep -i broad
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation "BCM4312" 802.11b/g (rev 01)
Note the returned value, it's show the chip card ID on your web card.
Have fun in your web world!!!

No comments:

Post a Comment