[CentOS] CentOS 5.2 -- how do I choose a wireless network?

[D Steward]

> Any suggestions on how to make this work under CentOS?   
What errors are you getting in the log files?
What is your wireless card/chipset?

> I'd prefer to
> have CentOS on my laptop, to keep it the same OS as our servers.    I
> don't want to learn two flavors of Linux...
fedora is very close to CentOS. Some of the directory structures and
configuration are only slightly different.
Most of my scripts created on fedora work without needing changes on
Centos 5.2
If your laptop is Centrino-based or uses an Intel chipset, fedora will
connect you to a WPA network out-of-the-box just like Ubuntu did.