Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
Quoting Cameron Showalter <cameron@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
there are a lot of resources out there regarding general linux
compatibility with wireless cards, however alot of outdated. You can
still find some very useful information. The problem ends up being
using any sort of encryption other than WEP with newer cards that
support WPA, WPA2, etc... I have successfully used a Zyxel G-102v2
802.11g card with different distros including Centos 4.x on an
unencrypted network or with WEP, but when I try to get WPA working I run
into a wall because the windows drivers don't work with ndiswrapper.
That's exactly why I'm asking for recommendations. I'll need to buy the
thing, stick it in laptop, and it has to work right away. WAP would be
high on the list of features. However WEP-only might be usable too. If
it doesn't work out of the box, I won't be able to browse the net to
search for solution (or additional software). Because my wireless card
doesn't work. By the time I'll be able to connect laptop to some wire,
I won't really need the card anymore (well, I'll need it someday in the
future again, but what I really need it for is this next trip I'll be
making).
If there's nothing like this for CentOS, Fedora Core is an option too.
OpenSUSE 10.0?
OpenSUSE 10.2?
These support the Atheros-based card ootb in my Acer Aspire.
Your prospects are far better with FC{5,6} than with CentOS: in your
position I'd probably not consider CentOS for very long.
Note: FC6 is a complete basket case on my Del Optiplex GX 270 desktop.
It does not handle the Intel graphics at all well. I did have RHEL5
beta, SLES10 and SUSE10 all running on it without great difficulty, but
X was a challenge for RHEL5.
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Cheers
John
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