>-----Original Message----- >From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On >Behalf Of m.roth at 5-cent.us >Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 7:00 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - >ATH9K disaster > >About 5 years ago, I had to install a wireless card in my tower, and it's >an ATH9xx, I *think* - I can check this evening, if that's relevant. I was >running SuSE, and had to find drivers from madwifi. A few minutes of >googling found... I second that, ie OpenSUSE. I've too had two laptops with incompatible wifi-hardware visavi CentOS. Ubuntu kinda' worked in that it found the wifi-hardware, but couldn't connect to my WPA2-AP at home in a stable manner. After having gone through a few other distros, I ventured into OpenSUSE 10 and later 11 and voilá, it both found the hardware and was able to connect to the WPA2-enabled AP, as well as having a stable connection. As good as CentOS is with respect to stability both as a server and as a desktop-solution, it shouldn't maybe be your first choice for a laptop. That's my experience and my five oere... -- /Sorin -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 5110 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110126/8cf04215/attachment-0005.bin>