Personal computing discussed
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axeman wrote:Maybe if this flies, it can be stickied ?
bitvector wrote:axeman wrote:Maybe if this flies, it can be stickied ?
If something like this was stickied, various mobos would need to be continually updated as driver support is added.
just brew it! wrote:Compaq nc6220 laptop - works great, except for WPA encryption on the Wi-Fi adapter [Fedora Core 6]
axeman wrote:There are definate issues running X on newer Via chipsets, older ones just use the S3 driver AFAIK. If you google "openchrome" it will point you in the right direction.
bitvector wrote:just brew it! wrote:Compaq nc6220 laptop - works great, except for WPA encryption on the Wi-Fi adapter [Fedora Core 6]
What wireless driver were you using? According to my Googling, this laptop uses the Intel 2200BG (or 2915ABG), which is an excellent wireless chip in terms of stuff working with the ipw2200 driver. Are you sure this isn't a personal configuration issue rather than a specific hardware support issue?
just brew it! wrote:Getting it to work with WEP was a piece of cake, using the driver you mention. Never did get WPA to work quite right, and simply gave up since it wasn't a high priority.
bitvector wrote:Well, I ask because I have a 2200BG mini-PCI card and I've used WPA with the ipw2200 for about two years. I've also used WPA on madwifi. The main thing I've found is that it's often a pain to set up the supplicant and configuration stuff in general, across drivers. But if we're making some sort of compatibility list, I wouldn't mark down the ipw2200 chipset as "not working" for WPA.
axeman wrote:I already added it to the first post, but as I understand it, you want Atheros or Intel wireless chipsets, (madwifi or ipw2200 drivers) as the best choices, no?
axeman wrote:lex-ington wrote:I have the Gigabyte GA-M61SME-S2 board, and according to their website the on-board LAN controller is a Realtek 8201 chip, but I can't get it to be recognized by CentOS for anything - I have a DLink PCI card in there now that works flawlessly.
The realtek 8201 is a PHY, not a real ethernet controller. It just provides the physical layer for the ethernet controller built into the chipset.. Being a GF6100 chipset, it should work with the forcedeth module. I'm not familiar enough with CentOS to guess what's going on though.
Here's a handy link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHYceiver
lex-ington wrote:I am showing 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5.centos.plus
obj-m +=forcedeth.o