At Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:38:03 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
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?
Most of the 'embeded' wireless cards are actually mini-PCI cards. If you could beg/borrow/steal an Intel ipw2100 or ipw2200 mini-PCI card and swap that in you would have a completly painless wifi solution. I don't know of any current model PCMCIA cards that will be as painless. You might find an older Prism-type card on E-Bay -- those cards are pretty close to painless.
Dave
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