[CentOS] WNA1100 Netgear Wireless USB

Fri Dec 3 21:04:08 UTC 2010
Ned Slider <ned at unixmail.co.uk>

On 03/12/10 18:22, rey at saf.com wrote:
>
> Any chance this wireless USB can be made to work on 32 bit CentOS 5.5?
>
> [root at young ~]# /sbin/lsusb
> Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0846:9030 NetGear, Inc.
> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> Bus 001 Device 002: ID 413c:0108 Dell Computer Corp.
>
> [root at young ~]# uname -a
> Linux young 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue Nov 9 12:54:40 EST 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> Thanks in Advance


I think that's an Atheros 9271 chipset using the ath9k_htc driver:

http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k_htc

It might require a newer kernel to compile though.