On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 08:28:49AM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > David McGuffey wrote: > > Have decided to give up on the embedded Broadcom 4312 wireless device in > > my son's Dell laptop. I get WEP open authentication to work, but > > nothing else. I was about to dump the bcm43xx kernel module and the > > bcm43xx-microcode5.fw firmware and work with the newer b43 module and > > associated firmware. However, he claims that at school, he has always > > had intermittent problems with wireless under Vista and wants an > > external device (USB or PCMCIA). > > > > For USB, you will almost for sure have to use the NDIS wrapper driver. I > have not tried it, been shying away from it for at least a year now. I > believe it is built into FC11, so will be part of Centos 6 at some date > off in the future ;) I was recently snooping around on amazon and newegg looking at wireless cards for desktop machines. I was specifically reading customer reviews that mentioned Linux. There were a number of them that reportedly worked on Linux, and most of them used an (older, I think) ralink chipset that appars to have drivers on Centos 5 (at least there is a kernel module by that name) and which the reviewers said that it "just worked". Most of the ones I was looking at were PCI cards, which won't help you if you're looking for something for a laptop, but I also recall seeing some USB models that also claimed to work on linux. Good luck! > PCMCIA or miniPCI is more promising. You can use the DKMS driver (?) for > say madwifi, and be quite satisfied with the results. > > You say that the current wifi is 'builtin'. Is that on the board or a > miniPCI? If the later, pull it out and put in something supported. > > > So...if you had a clean slate, which make & model would you buy for > > mindlessly easy installation and use under CentOS 5.3? > > > > Dave > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------- I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. ------------------------------ Philippians 4:13 -------------------------------
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