Thanks for that link. I'll have another go at making that wireless card work, and if it does I will humbly apologise for saying that the CentOS driver doesn't work for the Ralink RT2561 chipset. -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Monroe Sent: 09 September 2009 22:00 To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: CentOS and wireless, oh my Did you review the CentOS wiki on this? http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless It might be a firmware update required. 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
