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Problem with Wireless using a Dell laptop with Opensuse 11.3 installed

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http://forums.opensuse.org – I have a Dell laptop Studio 1735 bought more or less two years ago. I decided to install Opensuse 11.3 and when the installation process finished the wireless card was not working. As a newbie in Linux I have started to make my own research in internet and I discovered that the cards with Broadcom chipset give some troubles. So I started to gather all the information about my wireless card and I tried to solve the issue by myself, but unfortunately I did have no success. I report below the info I got with Yast and the line command tool. 1) Yast=> Hardware => Hardware Information Wir (Distributions)

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