On Tue, 25 Jan 2011, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > From: m.roth at 5-cent.us > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K > disaster > > Always Learning wrote: > <snip> >> After 8 hours on Saturday I could sometimes see hubs in the >> neighbourhood but could not connect to my own hub using WPA2. >> >> iwlist wlan0 scan >> >> produced technical details of local hubs - but still could not connect. >> NetworkManager sometimes froze. >> >> Spent many hours Googling for his wifi adaptor Altheros AR928K which >> uses a driver known as ATH9K. Many others have had a similar problem. >> Kernel 2.6.27 apparently includes this driver but Centos 5.5 is 2.6.18. I came from Fedora 10 to Centos, and the learning curve was basically a flat line. Using Centos is like stepping back in time to FC8 for me. So I recommend Fedora as it's cutting edge, and I had no major problems apart from not being able to print from Java apps - but that got sorted a long time ago AFAIR. Kind Regards, Keith ----------------------------------------------------------------- Websites: http://www.karsites.net http://www.php-debuggers.net http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk All email addresses are challenge-response protected with TMDA [http://tmda.net] -----------------------------------------------------------------