Re: Red Hat EL4 wireless support?

On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:06:26 -0500, marco wrote:

Hi,

Is anybody using a wireless ethernet PCI card which works with an
"out-of-the-box" Red Hat EL4 system? That is to say, a card which will work
without having to install anything beyond what's already included in the
EL4 original distro (plus any updates from up2date i.e. kernel
2.6.9-42.0.3.EL).

Thanks for any help!

I see you haven't had any responses after two days, which is not good
news. The tale of wireless support in Linux is not a happy one. Even with
the current kernel support sucks, the 2.6.9 kernel had almost no support.
I don't know if RH has bothered to back port any drivers to their version
of the 2.6.9 kernel but I would tend to doubt it. My personal experience
with wireless support is limited to two devices, a Linksys 802.11b card
that had a miserable native driver that crashed if you turned on WEP, and
a Broadcom 802.11g chip that was better off before there was a native
driver. With the Broadcom chip I was able to use Ndiswrapper plus the
Windows driver which worked fine. Unfortunately in the most recent kernels
a driver has been added which thinks it recognizes the chip. The native
driver doesn't work at all and what's worse I think it's preventing me
from using Ndiswrapper. In FC5 I was able to install and use Ndiswrapper
on this chip, in FC6 I haven't been able to make it work. If you really
really must use Wireless then your best bet is to use Ndiswrapper, but if
you can stick to Ethernet then you'll be a whole lot happier if you forget
about wireless.
.

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