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.