CentOS - Jan 2008 - Wondering about CentOS 5.1 functionality

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Hi All,

I'm giving serious thought to loading 5.1 on my Inspiron 1501 laptop,
but I'm wondering about certain hardware support such as the following:

- - Broadcom Wireless Adapter - 1390 Wlan (bcm43xx)
- - USB (Pny Memory Stick - everytime on previous version CentOS has eaten
the damned things)
- - pptp vpn client(s)

Any comments?

thanks,

Mark
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On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 23:37 -0500, Mark Weaver wrote:
> I'm giving serious thought to loading 5.1 on my Inspiron 1501 laptop,
> but I'm wondering about certain hardware support such as the following:
> - - Broadcom Wireless Adapter - 1390 Wlan (bcm43xx)
Last I checked not even Fedora runs this thing properly. Avoid.

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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet at gmail.com>

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Mark Weaver wrote:

> I'm giving serious thought to loading 5.1 on my Inspiron 1501 laptop,
> but I'm wondering about certain hardware support such as the following:
> 
> - Broadcom Wireless Adapter - 1390 Wlan (bcm43xx)
> - USB (Pny Memory Stick - everytime on previous version CentOS has eaten
> the damned things)
> - pptp vpn client(s)
> 
> Any comments?
I can't attest to your pptp vpn and wireless question, but I just used a
PNY memory stick yesterday on CentOS 5.1 with no troubles. I've never
had any issues with PNY on 4.5 either, though.

Regards,
Max
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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 23:37 -0500, Mark Weaver wrote:
>> I'm giving serious thought to loading 5.1 on my Inspiron 1501
laptop,
>> but I'm wondering about certain hardware support such as the
following:
> 
>> - - Broadcom Wireless Adapter - 1390 Wlan (bcm43xx)
> 
> Last I checked not even Fedora runs this thing properly. Avoid.
Actually Fedora 7 ran it wonderfully. I used ndiswrapper and a script to
initialize the adapter during the boot process.

I'm running OpenSUSE 10.3 on this laptop right now and there is plenty
to like about it, however I'm a RedHat man at heart and there are things
that I'm used to on my RedHat systems that I don't want to give up.
I'd
like to get back to a RedHat based distro for this machine if I can.

Mark

>> - - Broadcom Wireless Adapter - 1390 Wlan (bcm43xx)
Works in CentOS 5.1 ... requires firmware.

On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 23:37 -0500, Mark Weaver wrote:
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> Hi All,
> 
> I'm giving serious thought to loading 5.1 on my Inspiron 1501 laptop,
> but I'm wondering about certain hardware support such as the following:
> 
> - - Broadcom Wireless Adapter - 1390 Wlan (bcm43xx)
> - - USB (Pny Memory Stick - everytime on previous version CentOS has eaten
> the damned things)
> - - pptp vpn client(s)
> 
> Any comments?
It seems everybody already answered the first two points ...
Regarding the pptp vpn client, i've rebuilt the pptpconfig pptp client
(gtk interface) and all the deps and they are now also on
http://centos.karan.org/el5/extras/testing/i386/RPMS/ ...

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Fabian Arrotin <fabian.arrotin at arrfab.net>
Solution ? 
echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc
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Fabian Arrotin wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 23:37 -0500, Mark Weaver wrote:
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>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm giving serious thought to loading 5.1 on my Inspiron 1501
laptop,
>> but I'm wondering about certain hardware support such as the
following:
>>
>> - - Broadcom Wireless Adapter - 1390 Wlan (bcm43xx)
>> - - USB (Pny Memory Stick - everytime on previous version CentOS has
eaten
>> the damned things)
>> - - pptp vpn client(s)
>>
>> Any comments?
> It seems everybody already answered the first two points ...
> Regarding the pptp vpn client, i've rebuilt the pptpconfig pptp client
> (gtk interface) and all the deps and they are now also on
> http://centos.karan.org/el5/extras/testing/i386/RPMS/ ...
> 
very nice... thank you very much for that information and the time 
you've spent on all those packages. It's greatly appreciated.

Now I can get my vpn connections setup again and actually get some work 
done. It's good to have CentOS on this machine.

Mark

Fabian Arrotin wrote:
> It seems everybody already answered the first two points ...
> Regarding the pptp vpn client, i've rebuilt the pptpconfig pptp client
> (gtk interface) and all the deps and they are now also on
> http://centos.karan.org/el5/extras/testing/i386/RPMS/ ...
Hi Fabian,

I've been trying to work through this for some hours now, including a 
very valiant attempt at building the packages myself, with nothing to 
show for my trouble, but a headache.

I was finally able to get your repository working, but I'm running into 
a problem:

Error: Missing Dependency: php4-pcntl >= 4.3.9-2 is needed by package 
pptpconfig
Error: Missing Dependency: /bin/php4-pcntl is needed by package pptpconfig
Error: Missing Dependency: php4-pcntl-gtk is needed by package pptpconfig

I can't seem to find a package for "php4-pcntl" to save my life.

Have any suggestions?

Mark