18 Jun
2009
18 Jun
'09
2:38 p.m.
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