On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 08:28:49AM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
David McGuffey 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).
For USB, you will almost for sure have to use the NDIS wrapper driver. I have not tried it, been shying away from it for at least a year now. I believe it is built into FC11, so will be part of Centos 6 at some date off in the future ;)
I was recently snooping around on amazon and newegg looking at wireless cards for desktop machines. I was specifically reading customer reviews that mentioned Linux. There were a number of them that reportedly worked on Linux, and most of them used an (older, I think) ralink chipset that appars to have drivers on Centos 5 (at least there is a kernel module by that name) and which the reviewers said that it "just worked".
Most of the ones I was looking at were PCI cards, which won't help you if you're looking for something for a laptop, but I also recall seeing some USB models that also claimed to work on linux.
Good luck!
PCMCIA or miniPCI is more promising. You can use the DKMS driver (?) for say madwifi, and be quite satisfied with the results.
You say that the current wifi is 'builtin'. Is that on the board or a miniPCI? If the later, pull it out and put in something supported.
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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