[CentOS] Wondering about CentOS 5.1 functionality

Sat Jan 5 23:32:30 UTC 2008
Mark Weaver <mdw1982 at mdw1982.com>

Fabian Arrotin wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 23:37 -0500, Mark Weaver wrote:
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>> Hi All,
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>> I'm giving serious thought to loading 5.1 on my Inspiron 1501 laptop,
>> but I'm wondering about certain hardware support such as the following:
>>
>> - - Broadcom Wireless Adapter - 1390 Wlan (bcm43xx)
>> - - USB (Pny Memory Stick - everytime on previous version CentOS has eaten
>> the damned things)
>> - - pptp vpn client(s)
>>
>> Any comments?
> It seems everybody already answered the first two points ...
> Regarding the pptp vpn client, i've rebuilt the pptpconfig pptp client
> (gtk interface) and all the deps and they are now also on
> http://centos.karan.org/el5/extras/testing/i386/RPMS/ ...
> 

very nice... thank you very much for that information and the time 
you've spent on all those packages. It's greatly appreciated.

Now I can get my vpn connections setup again and actually get some work 
done. It's good to have CentOS on this machine.

Mark