[CentOS] Which external WiFi device for laptop running CentOS 5.3?
Mfawa Alfred Onen
muffycompoqm at gmail.comFri Jun 19 09:55:09 UTC 2009
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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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090619/38b30d5d/attachment-0001.html>
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