[CentOS] wireless laptop configuration

[Toshaan Bharvani]

Steve Huff wrote:
>
> On Aug 19, 2008, at 5:04 AM, Sorin at Gmail wrote:
>
>> I'm using a 3Com 3CRWE154G72 IIRC, which according to the hwconf's using the 
>> prism54 driver/firmware/whatever.
>>     
>> Would I maybe be better off reinstalling the whole shebang and have the
>> wifi-card inserted from start in order for the centos installer to 
>> see it
>> properly from the beginning?
>
>
> before you do that, open a terminal, become root, and run 
> /usr/sbin/kudzu (while the wireless card is installed).  that's the 
> program that does hardware detection; it may be able to sort out your 
> issue.
>
> -steve
>
or if kudzu for some reason doesn't cooperate (which is always on my system)
become root
run : /sbin/modprobe prism54
run : dmesg | tail
and read whether it just says it has loaded the module (single line) or 
detected will output a wlanX statement and you are in business


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