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2009 Jun 18
4
Which external WiFi device for laptop running CentOS 5.3?
Have decided to give up on the embedded Broadcom 4312 wireless device in
my son's Dell laptop. I get WEP open authentication to work, but
nothing else. I was about to dump the bcm43xx kernel module and the
bcm43xx-microcode5.fw firmware and work with the newer b43 module and
associated firmware. However, he claims that at school, he has always
had intermittent problems with wireless under Vista and wants an
external device (USB or PCMCIA).
So...if you had a clean slate, which make & model would you buy for
mindl...
2009 Jun 11
5
Problems with Broadcom 4312 wireless
I'm migrating my son's Dell laptop from Vista to CentOS 5.3. He came
back from each of his first two years of college loaded with virii and
trojans. This year he said "Dad, can you give me Linux?"
5.3 went onto the laptop easily and after doing some research, I applied
the guidance for getting multimedia working and got the nvidia driver
loaded. That works great.
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