Scott, > Did you review the CentOS wiki on this? > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless *sigh* It's a tower, and a card, not a laptop. But what *REALLY* aggravates me is them telling you to use yum to pull down madwifi... OFF THE NET THAT YOU CAN'T GET ON.... > > It might be a firmware update required. Again, I don't see why - as I said, 2+ yr old opensuse had no trouble with the card, and setting it up to use with WPA. SuSE 10, the beginning of '06, had no trouble with WEP, and the same card. I'm getting the feeling that there's no good configuration tool for wireless in CentOS (or RH), and that they don't have all the drivers on the DVD.... mark "playing sneakernet from work, or his daughter's machine" > > Scott > > On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Jose R R <jose.r.r@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 9:49 AM, <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > >> > > On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 6:28 PM, <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > >> So, at home, I'm finally going up from opensuse 10.3 to CentOS 5.3. >> With >> > >> opensuse 10.3, two years old, yast had utterly no trouble >> configuring >> my >> > >> wireless card, with the madwifi driver, and handling WPA. >> > > [...] >> > >> >> > >> Clues for the incredibly irritated? >> > >> >> > > Well, only a suggestion. You may want to dual boot with Fedora 11 >> > > --being bleeding edge,it may recognize appropriately (and provide >> > >> > *sigh* >> > When I go home from working as a sysadmin, I do NOT want to debug the >> o/s. >> > >> ...Reiterating there are Debian, Ubuntu, or even Fedora 11 >> distributions provide better support. You could have upgraded SuSE to >> the newer version, as well. >> >> > I never went to fedora when RedHat went to that and RHEL. >> > >> That is purely subjective. Inanimate objects -as hardware- or human >> creations -as software- are in the irrational realm. >> > >> > > support for) your wireless card. Subsequently you may use the >> > >> > Why should I need bleeding edge? >> > >> 1) Possibly better routines to identify your hardware and provide >> appropriate network configuration parameters? >> >> 2) Accumulation of wireless drivers in that distribution like [...] >> > ath5k_pci? >> that you are searching for??? >> >> .... >> >> -- >> Jose R R >> http://www.metztli-it.com >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> IBM Lotus Symphony supported on GNU/Linux, Mac OS, and Windows. >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Daylight Saving Time in USA & Canada starts: Sunday 08 March 2009 >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> -- >> redhat-list mailing list >> unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list >> > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
