Hi
I installed OpenSuse 13.1 after trashing my hard drive and replacing it in my Dell Inspiron M5010 laptop. The install on the new HD was good and the laptop worked almost as before including the Wlan connection through a Broadcom which configured with network manager easily (see below for more info on the controller).
This morning for no apparent reason my connection dropped (on the laptop not the router) and network manager now says "wlan unavailable" and that the it is blocked by the hardware. Also the "enable wireless" box is grey and can't be checked. I checked around generally but not sure which way to go with this.
It may not be relevant bur before I noticed the broken connection I installed Photorec and also haven't been able to configure the wireless printer.I have a wired connection at the moment but really want to get the wireless working again.
Thanks for any help.
7: PCI 400.0: 0282 WLAN controller
[Created at pci.319]
Unique ID: YVtp.IzQij1EJm+D
Parent ID: 8otl.kR1n3y5IO_4
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:04.0/0000:04:00.0
SysFS BusID: 0000:04:00.0
Hardware Class: network
Model: "Broadcom WLAN controller"
Vendor: pci 0x14e4 "Broadcom"
Device: pci 0x4727
SubVendor: pci 0x1028 "Dell"
SubDevice: pci 0x0013
Revision: 0x01
Driver: "bcma-pci-bridge"
Driver Modules: "bcma"
Device File: wlp4s0
Features: WLAN
Memory Range: 0xfea00000-0xfea03fff (rw,non-prefetchable)
IRQ: 16 (519 events)
HW Address: ec:55:f9:4d:65:46
Link detected: no
WLAN channels: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
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
WLAN encryption modes: WEP40 WEP104 TKIP CCMP
WLAN authentication modes: open sharedkey wpa-psk wpa-eap
Module Alias: "pci:v000014E4d00004727sv00001028sd00000013bc02sc80i00"
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: bcma is active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe bcma"
Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #17 (PCI bridge)
I installed OpenSuse 13.1 after trashing my hard drive and replacing it in my Dell Inspiron M5010 laptop. The install on the new HD was good and the laptop worked almost as before including the Wlan connection through a Broadcom which configured with network manager easily (see below for more info on the controller).
This morning for no apparent reason my connection dropped (on the laptop not the router) and network manager now says "wlan unavailable" and that the it is blocked by the hardware. Also the "enable wireless" box is grey and can't be checked. I checked around generally but not sure which way to go with this.
It may not be relevant bur before I noticed the broken connection I installed Photorec and also haven't been able to configure the wireless printer.I have a wired connection at the moment but really want to get the wireless working again.
Thanks for any help.
7: PCI 400.0: 0282 WLAN controller
[Created at pci.319]
Unique ID: YVtp.IzQij1EJm+D
Parent ID: 8otl.kR1n3y5IO_4
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:04.0/0000:04:00.0
SysFS BusID: 0000:04:00.0
Hardware Class: network
Model: "Broadcom WLAN controller"
Vendor: pci 0x14e4 "Broadcom"
Device: pci 0x4727
SubVendor: pci 0x1028 "Dell"
SubDevice: pci 0x0013
Revision: 0x01
Driver: "bcma-pci-bridge"
Driver Modules: "bcma"
Device File: wlp4s0
Features: WLAN
Memory Range: 0xfea00000-0xfea03fff (rw,non-prefetchable)
IRQ: 16 (519 events)
HW Address: ec:55:f9:4d:65:46
Link detected: no
WLAN channels: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
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
WLAN encryption modes: WEP40 WEP104 TKIP CCMP
WLAN authentication modes: open sharedkey wpa-psk wpa-eap
Module Alias: "pci:v000014E4d00004727sv00001028sd00000013bc02sc80i00"
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: bcma is active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe bcma"
Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #17 (PCI bridge)