Can anyone vouch for a usb wifi nic that works under CentOS 5.1 reliably with good reception? Thanks! jlc
--- "Joseph L. Casale" jcasale@ActiveNetwerx.com wrote:
Can anyone vouch for a usb wifi nic that works under CentOS 5.1 reliably with good reception?
Of course, you will need to do an ndiswrapper install.
I've succeeded with the Netgear wg111t usb wifi, but only with a 32 bit kernel. Check the ndiswrapper sourceforge homepage for full selection of supported hardware.
hey...
cant's speak for centos...
but i'm running fedora 8 on a toshiba laptop, running x86_64 and i'm using madwifi, with a usb linksys wifi and it works like a champ.
i'm not using netmanager, or ndiswrapper.. just madwifi, and the regular net system/configuration app...
peace!
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org]On Behalf Of Mark Pryor Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 6:33 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] USB Wireless NIC
--- "Joseph L. Casale" jcasale@ActiveNetwerx.com wrote:
Can anyone vouch for a usb wifi nic that works under CentOS 5.1 reliably with good reception?
Of course, you will need to do an ndiswrapper install.
I've succeeded with the Netgear wg111t usb wifi, but only with a 32 bit kernel. Check the ndiswrapper sourceforge homepage for full selection of supported hardware.
-- Mark
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--- bruce bedouglas@earthlink.net wrote:
hey...
cant's speak for centos...
but i'm running fedora 8 on a toshiba laptop, running x86_64 and i'm using madwifi, with a usb linksys wifi and it works like a champ.
Interesting that you omit the model number. Is it the Linksys WUSB54GSC, or something close to that?
Although atheros chipsets will work with the madwifi drivers, USB devices were not supported as late as Feb '08. See http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4269087
Most likely your toshiba makes a wifi connection via the internal atheros device (which works with madwifi).
I would like to see the relevant lsusb, lspci, and modprobe.conf (alias) lines that expose how madwifi supports your USB device.
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org]On Behalf Of Mark Pryor Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 6:33 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] USB Wireless NIC
--- "Joseph L. Casale" jcasale@ActiveNetwerx.com wrote:
Can anyone vouch for a usb wifi nic that works
under
CentOS 5.1 reliably with good reception?
Of course, you will need to do an ndiswrapper install.
I've succeeded with the Netgear wg111t usb wifi, but only with a 32 bit kernel. Check the ndiswrapper sourceforge homepage for full selection of supported hardware.
-- Mark
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hi mark..
my bad for not providing additional information on the linksys usb port.
the toshiba satellite has an internal atheros, although i forget what the chipset is. but i couldn't get it running natively under FC 8. Couldn't get it to run using madwifi either as i wanted to go x86_64. So i finally punted and went to best buy, picked up a bunch of usb wifi devices and plugged them in. Got lucky in that the linksys device was recognized by the kernel/system...
My lsusb is: Linksys WUSB54GC 882.11g Adapter [ralink rt73]
hope this helps..
peace
ps, the device cost ~ $45.00
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org]On Behalf Of Mark Pryor Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 10:38 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: RE: [CentOS] USB Wireless NIC
--- bruce bedouglas@earthlink.net wrote:
hey...
cant's speak for centos...
but i'm running fedora 8 on a toshiba laptop, running x86_64 and i'm using madwifi, with a usb linksys wifi and it works like a champ.
Interesting that you omit the model number. Is it the Linksys WUSB54GSC, or something close to that?
Although atheros chipsets will work with the madwifi drivers, USB devices were not supported as late as Feb '08. See http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4269087
Most likely your toshiba makes a wifi connection via the internal atheros device (which works with madwifi).
I would like to see the relevant lsusb, lspci, and modprobe.conf (alias) lines that expose how madwifi supports your USB device.
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org]On Behalf Of Mark Pryor Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 6:33 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] USB Wireless NIC
--- "Joseph L. Casale" jcasale@ActiveNetwerx.com wrote:
Can anyone vouch for a usb wifi nic that works
under
CentOS 5.1 reliably with good reception?
Of course, you will need to do an ndiswrapper install.
I've succeeded with the Netgear wg111t usb wifi, but only with a 32 bit kernel. Check the ndiswrapper sourceforge homepage for full selection of supported hardware.
-- Mark
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