[CentOS] CentOS 6 supported hardware

[Mark Weaver]

On 7/5/2011 5:33 AM, B.J. McClure wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 11:09 +0200, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
>> Mark Weaver wrote:
>>> On 7/4/2011 10:41 PM, Scott Robbins wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 10:30:08PM -0400, Mark Weaver wrote:
>>>>> Has anyone seen a supported hardware list on CentOS 6? I've been looking
>>>>> around for the last few days; even looked at RedHat's site but didn't
>>>>> find one.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've got a Dell Inspiron 1501 with a Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN mini-card
>>>>> in it and I'm trying to find out if it's going to have native driver
>>>>> support for the WIFI.
>>>> I think most of the Dell Inspirons actually have a Broadcom 1390.
>>>> There's plenty of posts on it on Fedora forum, not sure how much will be
>>>> applicable to CentOS 6.
>>>
>>> I took a look at the Fedora 15 live CD and it didn't have any idea what
>>> to do with the WIFI chipset. As I recall it didn't even see it.
>>>
>>
>> Broadcom has license restrictions so even ElRepo guys wont create rpms,
>> but there is howto, even for CentOS 5:
>> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless/Broadcom
>>
>> Ljubomir
>
> Broadcom released open source drivers in Fall of 2010 for both 32&  64
> bit systems.  I do not know if it supports the 1390 chip.  It does
> support 4300 series chips and b43-fwcutter, for extracting and
> installing firmware, and b43 driver are shipped with RHEL 6.  One should
> probably assume the same support in CentOS 6.
>
> HTH,
> B.J.
>
> RHEL 6.0, Linux 2.6.32-131.2.1.el6.x86_64

well then... this is good news and I'll have to wait till 6 is released. 
Thank you for the info.

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