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@verizon.netwrote:
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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