CentOS and wireless, oh my

[Mark Perew]

Completely unrelated, but ...

Clicking on that link has crashed gnome for me twice.  I'm running FF 3.52.
on RHEL 2.6.18-164.el5 with gdm 2.16.0.

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Scott Monroe <samonroe54 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Did you review the CentOS wiki on this?
> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless
>
> It might be a firmware update required.
>
> Scott
>
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Jose R R <jose.r.r at metztli.com> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 9:49 AM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 6:28 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
> > > >> So, at home, I'm finally going up from opensuse 10.3 to CentOS 5.3.
> > With
> > > >> opensuse 10.3, two years old, yast had utterly no trouble
> configuring
> > my
> > > >> wireless card, with the madwifi driver, and handling WPA.
> > > > [...]
> > > >>
> > > >> Clues for the incredibly irritated?
> > > >>
> > > > Well, only a suggestion.  You may want to dual boot with Fedora 11
> > > > --being bleeding edge,it may recognize appropriately (and provide
> > >
> > > *sigh*
> > > When I go home from working as a sysadmin, I do NOT want to debug the
> > o/s.
> > >
> > ...Reiterating there are Debian, Ubuntu, or even Fedora 11
> > distributions provide better support.  You could have upgraded SuSE to
> > the newer version, as well.
> >
> > > I never went to fedora when RedHat went to that and RHEL.
> > >
> > That is purely subjective.  Inanimate objects -as hardware- or human
> > creations -as software- are in the irrational realm.
> > >
> > > > support for) your wireless card.  Subsequently you may use the
> > >
> > > Why should I need bleeding edge?
> > >
> > 1) Possibly better routines to identify your hardware and provide
> > appropriate network configuration parameters?
> >
> > 2) Accumulation of wireless drivers in that distribution like [...]
> > > ath5k_pci?
> > that you are searching for???
> >
> > ....
> >
> > --
> > Jose R R
> > http://www.metztli-it.com
> >
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