[CentOS] Which external WiFi device for laptop running CentOS 5.3?

Mfawa Alfred Onen muffycompoqm at gmail.com
Fri Jun 19 09:55:09 UTC 2009


Maybe you can try an intel based USB or PCMCIA card for your son and give it
a try. I had my CentOS 5.2 work with an Intel based card which was inbuilt
on the Laptop. I believe with the new Kernel in CentOS 5.3 you should have a
good chance of getting it to work.

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 3:38 PM, David McGuffey
<davidmcguffey at verizon.net>wrote:

> Have decided to give up on the embedded Broadcom 4312 wireless device in
> my son's Dell laptop.  I get WEP open authentication to work, but
> nothing else.  I was about to dump the bcm43xx kernel module and the
> bcm43xx-microcode5.fw firmware and work with the newer b43 module and
> associated firmware.  However, he claims that at school, he has always
> had intermittent problems with wireless under Vista and wants an
> external device (USB or PCMCIA).
>
> So...if you had a clean slate, which make & model would you buy for
> mindlessly easy installation and use under CentOS 5.3?
>
> Dave
>
>
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