[CentOS] wireless card for CentOS

Aleksandar Milivojevic

alex at milivojevic.org
Fri Jan 19 20:20:29 UTC 2007


Quoting Cameron Showalter <cameron at gwschool.com>:

> there are a lot of resources out there regarding general linux
> compatibility with wireless cards, however alot of outdated.     You can
> still find some very useful information.   The problem ends up being
> using any sort of encryption other than WEP with newer cards that
> support WPA, WPA2, etc...   I have successfully used a Zyxel G-102v2
> 802.11g card with different distros including Centos 4.x on an
> unencrypted network or with WEP, but when I try to get WPA working I run
> into a wall because the windows drivers don't work with ndiswrapper.

That's exactly why I'm asking for recommendations.  I'll need to buy  
the thing, stick it in laptop, and it has to work right away.  WAP  
would be high on the list of features.  However WEP-only might be  
usable too.  If it doesn't work out of the box, I won't be able to  
browse the net to search for solution (or additional software).   
Because my wireless card doesn't work.  By the time I'll be able to  
connect laptop to some wire, I won't really need the card anymore  
(well, I'll need it someday in the future again, but what I really  
need it for is this next trip I'll be making).

If there's nothing like this for CentOS, Fedora Core is an option too.





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