I want to buy a laptop and install CentOS 4 on it and have the wifi work when I'm done. (Hoping for reasonable specs: 2GHz, 40GB drive, 1/2 to 1 GB RAM, CD-ROM, light and thin, 13 or 14 inch screen....)
Any recommendations?
HP/Compaq nw8240 works a treat - only thing that I have not got working is the onboard modem and the wifi cut off switch, wifi and everything else works a treat with Centos 4.2 and 4.3.
There are even instructions on the HP site for installing RH on it.
Ian
On 25/05/06, jim stockford jim@well.com wrote:
I want to buy a laptop and install CentOS 4 on itand have the wifi work when I'm done. (Hoping for reasonable specs: 2GHz, 40GB drive, 1/2 to 1 GB RAM, CD-ROM, light and thin, 13 or 14 inch screen....)
Any recommendations?
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Here is the link with info on installing RHEL 4 on nw8240
http://h10018.www1.hp.com/wwsolutions/linux/products/clients/HP_whitepaper_M...
On 25/05/06, Ian Harper idharper@gmail.com wrote:
HP/Compaq nw8240 works a treat - only thing that I have not got working is the onboard modem and the wifi cut off switch, wifi and everything else works a treat with Centos 4.2 and 4.3.
There are even instructions on the HP site for installing RH on it.
Ian
On 25/05/06, jim stockford jim@well.com wrote:
I want to buy a laptop and install CentOS 4 on itand have the wifi work when I'm done. (Hoping for reasonable specs: 2GHz, 40GB drive, 1/2 to 1 GB RAM, CD-ROM, light and thin, 13 or 14 inch screen....)
Any recommendations?
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 10:25:43PM -0700, jim stockford wrote:
I want to buy a laptop and install CentOS 4 on it and have the wifi work when I'm done. (Hoping for reasonable specs: 2GHz, 40GB drive, 1/2 to 1 GB RAM, CD-ROM, light and thin, 13 or 14 inch screen....)
Any recommendations?
Anything without an Atheros based Wifi. Mine is Intel IPW2200, and works nicely. Everyone I know with atheros based is having problems.
- -- Rodrigo Barbosa rodrigob@suespammers.org "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns)
Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
Anything without an Atheros based Wifi. Mine is Intel IPW2200, and works nicely. Everyone I know with atheros based is having problems.
I have an IBM Thinkpad R40 with an Atheros based wifi chipset, running on CentOS 4.3 (it's been running on it since 4.0) without any problems. I have to load the driver set from a seperate RPM, though.
http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/madwifi/
Without loading the Madwifi drivers, however, I was never able to get CentOS to see my wireless. The only annoyance I have is every kernel update, I have to update the RPM. But if that's all it takes to have it working, I'm not going to complain.
Max
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On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 11:20:09AM -0400, Max H. wrote:
Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
Anything without an Atheros based Wifi. Mine is Intel IPW2200, and works nicely. Everyone I know with atheros based is having problems.
I have an IBM Thinkpad R40 with an Atheros based wifi chipset, running on CentOS 4.3 (it's been running on it since 4.0) without any problems. I have to load the driver set from a seperate RPM, though.
http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/madwifi/
Without loading the Madwifi drivers, however, I was never able to get CentOS to see my wireless. The only annoyance I have is every kernel update, I have to update the RPM. But if that's all it takes to have it working, I'm not going to complain.
I have tried 3 or 4 different versions od madwifi. The card works flawlessly for some time, then just dies.
The obvious conclusion is that some atheros chipsets are better supported than others. Which is good news for me, cause every one I've tried so far gave me a headache.
Can you give us the data on your chipset, for reference ?
- -- Rodrigo Barbosa rodrigob@suespammers.org "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns)
Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
Can you give us the data on your chipset, for reference ?
Sure...output is at the bottom.
Every now and again my connection dies, but it's few and far between. It seems to be more when I have the connection up for days on end. It's not the actual hardware dying though, because I just do an ifdown ath0, and then ifup ath0 and it comes back up fine. This leads me to believe it's not refreshing the DHCP lease through my wireless router instead of the actual hardware dying. My Linksys router is known to have a few bugs for it's particular version, so I assume this to be the issue.
I also get an error when bringing up the interface, but from what I read it's an error that can be ignored. Hope this helps you guys. The error is:
Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) : SET failed on device ath0 ; Invalid argument.
lspci -vv outputs:
02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5211 802.11ab NIC (rev 01) Subsystem: Unknown device 17ab:8310 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B+ Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium
TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 168 (2500ns min, 7000ns max), Cache Line Size 08 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11 Region 0: Memory at d0200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME-
lspci -n outputs:
02:02.0 Class 0200: 168c:0012 (rev 01)
Max
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On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 12:06:32PM -0400, Max H. wrote:
Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
Can you give us the data on your chipset, for reference ?
Sure...output is at the bottom.
lspci -vv outputs:
02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5211 802.11ab NIC (rev 01) Subsystem: Unknown device 17ab:8310 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B+ Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium
TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 168 (2500ns min, 7000ns max), Cache Line Size 08 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11 Region 0: Memory at d0200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mAPME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME-
lspci -n outputs:
02:02.0 Class 0200: 168c:0012 (rev 01)
Okey, that is a 802.11ab (11Mbps) chip. My experiences were only with 802.11g (54Mbps) chips.
In any case, it is VERY odd yours identifies itself as a Class 0200 device. I suppose it should a 0280 (Network controller).
In any case, tkx for the info.
- -- Rodrigo Barbosa rodrigob@suespammers.org "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns)
Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
Okey, that is a 802.11ab (11Mbps) chip. My experiences were only with 802.11g (54Mbps) chips.
In any case, it is VERY odd yours identifies itself as a Class 0200 device. I suppose it should a 0280 (Network controller).
In any case, tkx for the info.
No problem. Can you explain the classes briefly? I'm just curious and I don't know enough about wireless at that level.
Max
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On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 08:34:04PM -0400, Max H. wrote:
Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
Okey, that is a 802.11ab (11Mbps) chip. My experiences were only with 802.11g (54Mbps) chips.
In any case, it is VERY odd yours identifies itself as a Class 0200 device. I suppose it should a 0280 (Network controller).
In any case, tkx for the info.
No problem. Can you explain the classes briefly? I'm just curious and I don't know enough about wireless at that level.
I'm not an expert on this either.
As far as I know, the class ID is just to identify what kind of hardware it is. It might affect how the bios/OS handle the device.
0200 - Ethernet controller 0280 - Network controller
Interesting enough, there is a specific class for Wireless. So the Class for these devices should really be 0d80.
It certainly helps loading the apropriate module. Specially generic modules for a given device class (usb-uhci etc).
- -- Rodrigo Barbosa rodrigob@suespammers.org "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns)
Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
As far as I know, the class ID is just to identify what kind of hardware it is. It might affect how the bios/OS handle the device.
0200 - Ethernet controller 0280 - Network controller
Interesting enough, there is a specific class for Wireless. So the Class for these devices should really be 0d80.
It certainly helps loading the apropriate module. Specially generic modules for a given device class (usb-uhci etc).
I see. Ok, thanks for the info. Sorry if the specs I sent earlier for the a/b card sent you chasing your tail. I just assumed folks were meaning the Atheros chipset it general, so I thought I'd pitch in. Take care.
Max
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On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 09:16:42PM -0400, Max H. wrote:
Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
As far as I know, the class ID is just to identify what kind of hardware it is. It might affect how the bios/OS handle the device.
0200 - Ethernet controller 0280 - Network controller
Interesting enough, there is a specific class for Wireless. So the Class for these devices should really be 0d80.
It certainly helps loading the apropriate module. Specially generic modules for a given device class (usb-uhci etc).
I see. Ok, thanks for the info. Sorry if the specs I sent earlier for the a/b card sent you chasing your tail. I just assumed folks were meaning the Atheros chipset it general, so I thought I'd pitch in. Take care.
Actually, the specs you sent where very good information. Nothing to be sorry about.
tkx
- -- Rodrigo Barbosa rodrigob@suespammers.org "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns)
Max H. wrote:
No problem. Can you explain the classes briefly? I'm just curious and I don't know enough about wireless at that level.
The classes describe what kind of hardware the device is. You can see the complete list in the file:
pci_ids.h
assuming that you have the kernel-sourcecode package installed on your system. It should be in:
/usr/src/${KERNEL_VERSION}/include/linux
Barry
Barry L. Kline wrote:
The classes describe what kind of hardware the device is. You can see the complete list in the file:
pci_ids.h
assuming that you have the kernel-sourcecode package installed on your system. It should be in:
/usr/src/${KERNEL_VERSION}/include/linux
Gotcha! I've never looked in this file before, interesting. Thanks.
Max
Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
Okey, that is a 802.11ab (11Mbps) chip. My experiences were only with 802.11g (54Mbps) chips.
Ermm. 802.11a is 54Mbps ...
I don't run my notebook under CentOS, though, so I cannot provide anything else to this thread :)
Regards,
Ralph
Ralph Angenendt wrote:
Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
Okey, that is a 802.11ab (11Mbps) chip. My experiences were only with 802.11g (54Mbps) chips.
Ermm. 802.11a is 54Mbps ...
The world of 802.11 is more complex than those of you that do not write specs should care about.
Yes, 11a is 54Mb. So is 11g at 2.4Ghz. There is lots written on the pains of frequencies, modulations, the FCC, other users of said frequencies (like military), and other national boards (like Japan) that points to why things are as they are in 802.11 world.
My 'rule-of-thumb' for 11g vs 11a is:
For general use, 11g is better than 11a for coverage and material penetration.
For multi-occupancy environments (shared office buildings and apartments) the additional channels with 11a easy balance against the pain of negotiating, or just fighting over use of the channels.
Also home entertainment and particularly music will benefit from 11a over 11g. And 11n over either...
Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
I have tried 3 or 4 different versions od madwifi. The card works flawlessly for some time, then just dies.
Rodrigo,
I know this thread is a bit old, but I updated the rpms on my lappy a few days ago from madwifi 0.9.1 to 0.9.2 from atrpms. If you remember correctly, you mentioned about having the connections die randomly.
At the time, I didn't have any issues other than while watching the wifi connection, I could see it drop then pick right back up.
Since updating to the 0.9.2 set, I can sit and watch the connection and it seems to stay connected now for me, without dropping it and reconnecting whenever it feels like it.
I thought perhaps you'd want to know. :)
Max
On Thu, 25 May 2006, Max H. wrote:
Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
Anything without an Atheros based Wifi. Mine is Intel IPW2200, and works nicely. Everyone I know with atheros based is having problems.
I have an IBM Thinkpad R40 with an Atheros based wifi chipset, running on CentOS 4.3 (it's been running on it since 4.0) without any problems. I have to load the driver set from a seperate RPM, though.
http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/madwifi/
Without loading the Madwifi drivers, however, I was never able to get CentOS to see my wireless. The only annoyance I have is every kernel update, I have to update the RPM. But if that's all it takes to have it working, I'm not going to complain.
Have you succeeded in getting wpa encryption working with the Atheros/madwifi drivers??
My madwifi card works just fine with no encryption but I cannot get it to work with the wpa encryption turned on.
Regards,
Tom Diehl tdiehl@rogueind.com Spamtrap address mtd123@rogueind.com
Tom Diehl wrote:
Have you succeeded in getting wpa encryption working with the Atheros/madwifi drivers??
My madwifi card works just fine with no encryption but I cannot get it to work with the wpa encryption turned on.
That I have not yet tried. I use just normal WEP encryption and it's always worked fine. I know WEP isn't super secure, but if I have anything I don't want broadcasting I simply use a wire. There aren't any other wireless networks in my neighborhood, so I haven't really care to try it.
ATrpms has two different wpa_supplicant RPMs, but I don't know enough about WPA to say whether or not I'm on target with pointing you to this. From the small changelog at the bottom of these links say "added madwifi support," so I'm assuming it's supposed to work.
http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/wpa_supplicant/ http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/wpa_supplicant-eap-fast/
Max
On Thu, 25 May 2006, Max H. wrote:
Tom Diehl wrote:
Have you succeeded in getting wpa encryption working with the Atheros/madwifi drivers??
My madwifi card works just fine with no encryption but I cannot get it to work with the wpa encryption turned on.
That I have not yet tried. I use just normal WEP encryption and it's always worked fine. I know WEP isn't super secure, but if I have anything I don't want broadcasting I simply use a wire. There aren't any other wireless networks in my neighborhood, so I haven't really care to try it.
ATrpms has two different wpa_supplicant RPMs, but I don't know enough about WPA to say whether or not I'm on target with pointing you to this. From the small changelog at the bottom of these links say "added madwifi support," so I'm assuming it's supposed to work.
http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/wpa_supplicant/ http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/wpa_supplicant-eap-fast/
As a followup to this I got madwifi and wpa_supplicant working last night. Whoooooooo!!
I used 0.9.0 driver from the madwifi site. I could not even get the drivers from atrpms to bring the interface up. I must have missed something. Anyway, I figured since the drivers on the madwifi site were newer I would go that way.
I used a specfile that I got off of the old madwifi site to build a set of rpms. It is not real pretty but it worked.
The box has been up for pver 8 hours with no disconnects from the network. In fact I am writing this message over the wireless network. :-)
For those interested here is the output of lspci -vv: 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01) Subsystem: PROXIM Inc Unknown device 0a40 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 168 (2500ns min, 7000ns max), Cache Line Size 20 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10 Region 0: Memory at 34000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=375mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME-
lspci -n: 03:00.0 0200: 168c:0013 (rev 01)
Now I just need to find a way to manage multiple wpa encrypted connections easially.
Regards,
Tom Diehl tdiehl@rogueind.com Spamtrap address mtd123@rogueind.com
Tom Diehl wrote:
Have you succeeded in getting wpa encryption working with the Atheros/madwifi drivers??
My madwifi card works just fine with no encryption but I cannot get it to work with the wpa encryption turned on.
You need the madwifi-ng driver to use WPA, if I'm not completely wrong. Having no WPA enabled access point to test it on, I couldn't say if it works, though.
http://madwifi.org/wiki/Releases/0.9.0 - they put out the first release based on madwifi-ng 2 days ago.
Ralph
Ralph Angenendt Wrote:
Tom Diehl wrote:
Have you succeeded in getting wpa encryption working with the Atheros/madwifi drivers??
My madwifi card works just fine with no encryption but I cannot get it to work with the wpa encryption turned on.
You need the madwifi-ng driver to use WPA, if I'm not completely wrong. Having no WPA enabled access point to test it on, I couldn't say if it works, though.
http://madwifi.org/wiki/Releases/0.9.0 - they put out the first release based on madwifi-ng 2 days ago.
I have been running madwifi-ng from cvs for some time now. I suspect it is simply a matter of finding some time to come up with the magic incantation to get it to work.
Judging from the response here not many people are trying to use it.
Regards,
Tom Diehl tdiehl@rogueind.com Spamtrap address mtd123@rogueind.com
Tom Diehl wrote:
Have you succeeded in getting wpa encryption working with the Atheros/madwifi drivers??
My madwifi card works just fine with no encryption but I cannot get it to work with the wpa encryption turned on.
You need the madwifi-ng driver to use WPA, if I'm not completely wrong. Having no WPA enabled access point to test it on, I couldn't say if it works, though.
http://madwifi.org/wiki/Releases/0.9.0 - they put out the first release based on madwifi-ng 2 days ago.
Ralph
Tom Diehl wrote:
Ralph Angenendt Wrote:
Tom Diehl wrote:
Have you succeeded in getting wpa encryption working with the
Atheros/madwifi
drivers??
My madwifi card works just fine with no encryption but I cannot get
it to
work with the wpa encryption turned on.
You need the madwifi-ng driver to use WPA, if I'm not completely wrong. Having no WPA enabled access point to test it on, I couldn't say if it works, though.
http://madwifi.org/wiki/Releases/0.9.0 - they put out the first release based on madwifi-ng 2 days ago.
I have been running madwifi-ng from cvs for some time now. I suspect it is simply a matter of finding some time to come up with the magic incantation to get it to work.
If I should not be using the RH drivers from http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/madwifi/, is there someway for you to share your builds?
On Sun, 9 Jul 2006, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
Tom Diehl wrote:
Ralph Angenendt Wrote:
Tom Diehl wrote:
Have you succeeded in getting wpa encryption working with the
Atheros/madwifi
drivers??
My madwifi card works just fine with no encryption but I cannot get it
to
work with the wpa encryption turned on.
You need the madwifi-ng driver to use WPA, if I'm not completely wrong. Having no WPA enabled access point to test it on, I couldn't say if it works, though.
Well actually the -ng designation is gone now.
If you read the announcements here: http://madwifi.org/ you will find this:
"Note: June 2006, "madwifi-old" has been deprecated, it is no longer supported. All users are encouraged to use an official release tarball, which contains a stable snapshot of svn trunk."
If I should not be using the RH drivers from http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/madwifi/, is there someway for you to share your builds?
I have been successfully using the madwifi drivers from http://madwifi.org/ for several weeks. When I last looked, the stuff at atrpms was out of date. That may be corrected by now but it is easy enough to get the latest driver, so it makes sense to build your own.
It turns out that if you take one of the daily tarballs from subversion and run "rpmbuild -ta tarball_name" it will build a driver that "just works". All I had to do to get it to work with no encryption was plug in the card.
In order to get wpa to work I had to configure wpa_supplicant and start it by hand after the card is inserted.
In my /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf file I have something like the following:
# Run the following command to add another wpa network to the system: # wpa_passphrase YOURSSID yourpassphrase # mtd 27 May 06
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant ctrl_interface_group=wheel
network={ ssid="my_accesspoint" psk=8f12345672d565a2611c29dfaea6abac90432112341562e49f3c8801bf }
Having said all of the above I must confess that, I have never actually tried any of this on a centos system. My laptop runs FC5 so things might be slightly different.
Hope this helps,
Regards,
Tom
Tom Diehl wrote:
On Sun, 9 Jul 2006, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
Tom Diehl wrote:
Ralph Angenendt Wrote:
Tom Diehl wrote:
Have you succeeded in getting wpa encryption working with the
Atheros/madwifi
drivers??
My madwifi card works just fine with no encryption but I cannot
get it to
work with the wpa encryption turned on.
You need the madwifi-ng driver to use WPA, if I'm not completely wrong. Having no WPA enabled access point to test it on, I couldn't say if it works, though.
Well actually the -ng designation is gone now.
If you read the announcements here: http://madwifi.org/ you will find this:
"Note: June 2006, "madwifi-old" has been deprecated, it is no longer supported. All users are encouraged to use an official release tarball, which contains a stable snapshot of svn trunk."
I did dig that all out. It just threw me at first. 11-ng carries a lot of political IEEE 802 baggage.
If I should not be using the RH drivers from http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/madwifi/, is there someway for you to share your builds?
I have been successfully using the madwifi drivers from http://madwifi.org/ for several weeks. When I last looked, the stuff at atrpms was out of date. That may be corrected by now but it is easy enough to get the latest driver, so it makes sense to build your own.
But so far, I have only done ONE build of my own. I have my docs from that time and now I have to put it all together to see if I can do it for real.
The files are dated 5/31/06 which is after the madwifi-ng release.
It turns out that if you take one of the daily tarballs from subversion and run "rpmbuild -ta tarball_name" it will build a driver that "just works". All I had to do to get it to work with no encryption was plug in the card.
All of my APs here have some level of encryption. I was one of the contributors to 11i; you know, eat your own dogfood.
In order to get wpa to work I had to configure wpa_supplicant and start it by hand after the card is inserted.
Sigh.
In my /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf file I have something like the following:
# Run the following command to add another wpa network to the system: # wpa_passphrase YOURSSID yourpassphrase # mtd 27 May 06
Passphrase will work for some, but I need PEAP-MSCHAP.
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant ctrl_interface_group=wheel
network={ ssid="my_accesspoint" psk=8f12345672d565a2611c29dfaea6abac90432112341562e49f3c8801bf }
I will make note of this..
Having said all of the above I must confess that, I have never actually tried any of this on a centos system. My laptop runs FC5 so things might be slightly different.
Hope this helps,
yes!
Finally have a Centos install on my HP4010 worth working on, and put my Atheros PCI card in instead of the Intel (Intel was always flaky with XP, Atheros not).
Ralph Angenendt wrote:
Tom Diehl wrote:
Have you succeeded in getting wpa encryption working with the Atheros/madwifi drivers??
My madwifi card works just fine with no encryption but I cannot get it to work with the wpa encryption turned on.
You need the madwifi-ng driver to use WPA, if I'm not completely wrong. Having no WPA enabled access point to test it on, I couldn't say if it works, though.
http://madwifi.org/wiki/Releases/0.9.0 - they put out the first release based on madwifi-ng 2 days ago.
At first when I say the -ng designation, I was skeptical, as this normally refers to pre-11n MIMO stuff. But looking at the wiki, I see it is more than that.
I also see that on http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/madwifi/ the version is 0.9.1 which I hope is the -ng code. Further I might think that I can use: http://dl.atrpms.net/all/madwifi-0.9.1-24.el4.at.i386.rpm even though this is RH 4?
After I install this driver, do I run Kudzu to get the card recognized?
BTW, I will be at the IEEE 802 plenary in San Diego next week (heading to IETF in Montreal this week), and will talk to Chesson and other of my Atheros colleagues about progress. Now that I actually need his help on this!
On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 11:20 -0400, Max H. wrote:
Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
Anything without an Atheros based Wifi. Mine is Intel IPW2200, and works nicely. Everyone I know with atheros based is having problems.
I have an IBM Thinkpad R40 with an Atheros based wifi chipset, running on CentOS 4.3 (it's been running on it since 4.0) without any problems. I have to load the driver set from a seperate RPM, though.
http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/madwifi/
Without loading the Madwifi drivers, however, I was never able to get CentOS to see my wireless. The only annoyance I have is every kernel update, I have to update the RPM. But if that's all it takes to have it working, I'm not going to complain.
Have been using CentOS on a Lenovo (Chinese outfit that bought out IBM PC business) ThinkPad T42p for some time (with a Netgear WG511T PCMCIA - no built-in WiFi in this model), and concur with the above except that madwifi seems to be incompatible with the proprietary Cisco VPN module I have to use to connect to work when out of the office. Wireless works until an attempt is made to start the VPN at which point the machine hangs hard - as in nothing works but holding down the power button for several seconds to power down. The open source VPN clients don't seem to be compatible with our server. Cisco module works fine on hard-wired Ethernet.
(Am going to be ordering another card to replace the Atheros-based one. Any recommendations appreciated.)
Next laptop I buy will likely have the Intel WiFi.
Phil
In talking with various tech support people, I've come to the conclusion that the Intel wifi chipset, notably 2915bg, works; there are reported problems with the atheros chipset. The ThinkPad Z series has the intel stuff, the ThinkPad T series has the atheros stuff. I'll probably buy the ThinkPad Z, although HP seems to have a better commitment to Linux at this point (Lenovo techies sound like Linux testing is coming their way, and they sound glad about it).
On May 26, 2006, at 6:54 AM, Phil Schaffner wrote:
On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 11:20 -0400, Max H. wrote:
Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
Anything without an Atheros based Wifi. Mine is Intel IPW2200, and works nicely. Everyone I know with atheros based is having problems.
I have an IBM Thinkpad R40 with an Atheros based wifi chipset, running on CentOS 4.3 (it's been running on it since 4.0) without any problems. I have to load the driver set from a seperate RPM, though.
http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/madwifi/
Without loading the Madwifi drivers, however, I was never able to get CentOS to see my wireless. The only annoyance I have is every kernel update, I have to update the RPM. But if that's all it takes to have it working, I'm not going to complain.
Have been using CentOS on a Lenovo (Chinese outfit that bought out IBM PC business) ThinkPad T42p for some time (with a Netgear WG511T PCMCIA
no built-in WiFi in this model), and concur with the above except that madwifi seems to be incompatible with the proprietary Cisco VPN module I have to use to connect to work when out of the office. Wireless works until an attempt is made to start the VPN at which point the machine hangs hard - as in nothing works but holding down the power button for several seconds to power down. The open source VPN clients don't seem to be compatible with our server. Cisco module works fine on hard-wired Ethernet.
(Am going to be ordering another card to replace the Atheros-based one. Any recommendations appreciated.)
Next laptop I buy will likely have the Intel WiFi.
Phil
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On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 08:29:17AM -0700, jim stockford wrote:
In talking with various tech support people, I've come to the conclusion that the Intel wifi chipset, notably 2915bg, works; there are reported problems with the atheros chipset.
01:05.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)
# modinfo ipw2200 filename: /lib/modules/2.6.9-34.EL/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2200.ko description: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver
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--- jim stockford jim@well.com wrote:
I want to buy a laptop and install CentOS 4 onit and have the wifi work when I'm done. (Hoping for reasonable specs: 2GHz, 40GB drive, 1/2 to 1 GB RAM, CD-ROM, light and thin, 13 or 14 inch screen....)
Any recommendations?
Shop around but ensure :-
- Your chosen manufacturer has linux support. (IE linux.manufacturer.com or www.manufacturer.com/linux has relevant stuff on it.) - Look at the manufacturer's forums for users experiences. - Some models are certified for RHEL - If you need to madwifi or ndiswrapper are open source projects that provide drivers for wireless cards.
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--- jim stockford jim@well.com wrote:
I want to buy a laptop and install CentOS 4 onit and have the wifi work when I'm done. (Hoping for reasonable specs: 2GHz, 40GB drive, 1/2 to 1 GB RAM, CD-ROM, light and thin, 13 or 14 inch screen....)
Any recommendations?
Shop around but ensure :-
- Your chosen manufacturer has linux support. (IE
linux.manufacturer.com or www.manufacturer.com/linux has relevant stuff on it.)
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