Has anyone seen a supported hardware list on CentOS 6? I've been looking around for the last few days; even looked at RedHat's site but didn't find one. I've got a Dell Inspiron 1501 with a Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN mini-card in it and I'm trying to find out if it's going to have native driver support for the WIFI. thanks, -- Mark Weaver Computer Information Systems & Services, Inc. mweaver at compinfosystems.com (717) 512-9718
On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 10:30:08PM -0400, Mark Weaver wrote:> Has anyone seen a supported hardware list on CentOS 6? I've been looking > around for the last few days; even looked at RedHat's site but didn't > find one. > > I've got a Dell Inspiron 1501 with a Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN mini-card > in it and I'm trying to find out if it's going to have native driver > support for the WIFI.I think most of the Dell Inspirons actually have a Broadcom 1390. There's plenty of posts on it on Fedora forum, not sure how much will be applicable to CentOS 6. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Willow: So, how did it go? Xander: On a scale from one to ten? It sucked.
From: Mark Weaver <mweaver at compinfosystems.com>> Has anyone seen a supported hardware list on CentOS 6? I've been looking > around for the last few days; even looked at RedHat's site but didn't > find one.Maybe try here: https://hardware.redhat.com/ JD
Mark, On Tuesday, July 5, 2011 you wrote:> Has anyone seen a supported hardware list on CentOS 6?Check my question regarding the same question from May. 3rd this year with the subject "list of supported hardware". There is a list of certified hardware, but no list of supported hardware. I find this strange as in my opinion the hardware support is mainly handled in the kernel. If people are writing drivers for the kernel, it would be quite simple to ask them adding the supported hardware to a list. Some two years ago I had an issue with a new motherboard. After a kernel update, it had massive memory errors in the log-files. It turned out that a new kernel driver simply added the feature of reporting errors. They were there before, but not reported. I had to wade through the kernel source code and the history-files to figure out what had happened. Not really good, but OTOH no CENTOS problem. best regards --- Michael Schumacher PAMAS Partikelmess- und Analysesysteme GmbH Dieselstr.10, D-71277 Rutesheim Tel +49-7152-99630 Fax +49-7152-996333 Gesch?ftsf?hrer: Gerhard Schreck Handelsregister B Stuttgart HRB 252024
On Tuesday, July 05, 2011 06:19:58 PM Ned Slider wrote:> On 05/07/11 10:09, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > > Broadcom has license restrictions so even ElRepo guys wont create rpms, > > but there is howto, even for CentOS 5: > > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless/Broadcom> We (elrepo) certainly aren't prepared to create and redistribute binary > "kmod-wl" RPMS given the Broadcom licensing restrictions.For Fedora the RPMfusion 'nonfree' repo has kmod-wl and friends. An EPEL-based RPMfusion for EL is in testing, but kmod-wl and friends are not there yet. Caveats abound for using rpmfusion-nonfree. Please see the rpmfusion.org site for more info.
On Wednesday, July 06, 2011 04:36:39 PM Ned Slider wrote:> Yes, I see a couple of other repos are shipping kmod-wl binaries. We > noted that at the time we took legal advice to establish if we had > possibly misinterpreted the License. They obviously don't share our > concerns about the licensing terms for redistribution (or maybe they > just didn't read them too closely) :-/Understood. Obviously, don't put something in the repo you're not comfortable shipping; the .nosrc.rpm technique, with a documented build setup, to let people roll their own is fine, and has been used before for 'redistribution-restricted' code (like Sun/Oracle Java).> Personally I'd rather try to find a way to pressurise Broadcom into > doing the right thing by the Linux community rather than support (IMHO) > draconian licensing restrictions...The image in my mind of clamping a hyperbaric chamber over a whole company gave me the laugh of the day, thanks so much for the Freudian slip on 'pressurise'..... perhaps thats common usage in your location; in mine we'd say 'pressure' or 'leverage' but reserve 'pressurize' for things like air compressors and such....> Shame, as Broadcom adapters seem particularly prevalent > on AMD-based laptops. I bought an Intel-based laptop where pretty much > everything works with CentOS out of the box :-/The Apple Airport in an Intel Mac is Broadcom; many Intel Dell's have the option of Broadcom, which is typically less expensive than the 3945 or similar Intel wireless chipset. My Dell Inspiron 640m came with a Broadcom card; my Precision M65 had an Intel 3945 but has a Broadcom now (for other various reasons that are beyond the scope of the CentOS list). The one AMD laptop I had that had PCIe wifi had an Atheros chipset..... but YMMV. And just in case no one has said it lately, thanks to you and all the ELrepo folks for your efforts; even though I'm not currently using ELrepo for anything, I certainly appreciate what you'ns do.
On Friday, July 08, 2011 12:01:36 PM Christopher Chan wrote:> Professional Wireless Router? That knocked me off my seat :-D. 'Wireless > router' has become associated in my mind with that device you put in > homes. So what professional wireless routers are out there?Cisco has a few; see the ISR G2 1941W for one that is a 'cut above' the former Linksys product lines. Larger Cisco ISR's (2900 and 3900 series) support a network module that acts as a supervisor of sorts for Cisco access points, too.