Re: Any USB dongle support?

[Ryan Novosielski <novosirj umdnj edu>]

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Dan Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 10:58 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>> Dan Williams wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 07:50 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>>   
>>>> Anyone have experience with any USB dongles?  Particularly ones that 
>>>> support WPA and use wext, not ndiswrapper?
>>>>     
>>> Anything zd1211 related should work pretty well.  There are a _lot_ of
>>> those out there:
>>>
>>> http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/zd1211rw/devices
>> Oh, thank you!!!!
>>
>> I have been looking for this information for a long time browsing around 
>> and asking over on the Centos list.
> 
> Shoot, I forgot you were on CentOS.  There, you don't have any options
> at all, really.  There are no USB devices that do WPA that will work
> with CentOS, because the kernel is fairly old, and because with the
> mac80211 backport that Linville did, we are only supporting iwl4965 as a
> tech preview for now.

For that reason, I really wouldn't recommend CentOS as an operating
system for anything with an interesting video card, wireless, or
peripherals. That's the nature of these things in non-server equipment;
they move fast and leave Linux with the improbable task of keeping up.

This is why I stopped running Debian on portables. They build a fine OS,
just not one that generally keeps up with hardware salesfolk. They run
fine on servers, though -- very little whizbang in those kinds of
devices, normally, and I haven't seen an ethernet card in years that
wasn't supported.

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