Question on Dell 700m - RHEL 3 & Fedora 4

Vu Pham vu
Tue Sep 13 06:42:40 PDT 2005


> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org 
> [mailto:linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org] On Behalf Of keith morse
> Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 11:48 PM
> To: Linux tips and tricks
> Subject: Re: Question on Dell 700m - RHEL 3 & Fedora 4
> 
> Vu Pham wrote:
> 
> >>Is that a centrino based wifi NIC?  If so, then no, its not 
> natively 
> >>supported in any RH/FC release.  I think there are beta drivers 
> >>available somewhere though.
> > 
> > 
> > That's bad for me. I have to use a PCMCIA wifi in this case.
> > 
> 
> If your NIC is pcmcia, I thought that would mean it's not 
> Centrino based. 
> Course, I'm probably just sticking my foot in my mouth on this one.

Keith, I am not sure whether my PCMCIA is a Centrino-based or not. It is a
Cisco Aironet 802.11 a/b/g. I see  people use it for wifi site surveying so
I assume that they do not all have Centrino-based systems. I may be wrong.

Vu



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