On Tue, 25 Jan 2011, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: m.roth@5-cent.us Subject: Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster
Always Learning wrote:
<snip> > After 8 hours on Saturday I could sometimes see hubs in the > neighbourhood but could not connect to my own hub using WPA2. > > iwlist wlan0 scan > > produced technical details of local hubs - but still could not connect. > NetworkManager sometimes froze. > > Spent many hours Googling for his wifi adaptor Altheros AR928K which > uses a driver known as ATH9K. Many others have had a similar problem. > Kernel 2.6.27 apparently includes this driver but Centos 5.5 is 2.6.18.
I came from Fedora 10 to Centos, and the learning curve was basically a flat line. Using Centos is like stepping back in time to FC8 for me.
So I recommend Fedora as it's cutting edge, and I had no major problems apart from not being able to print from Java apps - but that got sorted a long time ago AFAIR.
Kind Regards,
Keith
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