RE: CentOS and wireless, oh my

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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
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>
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