[CentOS] USB Wireless NIC

Sat May 3 05:38:20 UTC 2008
Mark Pryor <tlviewer at yahoo.com>

--- bruce <bedouglas at 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-----
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> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org]On
> Behalf Of Mark Pryor
> Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 6:33 PM
> To: centos at centos.org
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] USB Wireless NIC
> 
> 
> 
> --- "Joseph L. Casale" <jcasale at 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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