Karanbir Singh <> scribbled on Thursday, August 14, 2008 2:47 PM:
Trying to learn wifi netwroking with linux, and CentOS v5.2 in particular. Following the above howto helped a bit on the way, but I'm nowhere near getting the wifi-card to connect.
I've installed madwifi, ndiswrapper, dkms and whatnot in order to get this working, but still it's a no go. Centos does see the card in Administration/Network and the wireless network thing is visible in Network manager, but when I try connect or create a new connection to my wlan it just times out or says it couldn't connect for some reason. The wlan I'm trying to connect to is WPA2-PSK using AES.
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?
The experimental machine I use is not critical in any way. Only gotcha' is that it only has a CD-drive so I have to shuffle discs should I do a complete reinstall. 8-)
Thx in advance for any advice.