Question on Dell 700m - RHEL 3 & Fedora 4

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Vu Pham wrote:
> > -----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.

Cisco Aironet is most definitely not centrino.  I have two aironet pcmcia
wifi NICs that work very well in linux.  They use the airo module.

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