CentOS and wireless, oh my

[Johan Booysen]

What chipset does you wireless card have?

Few weeks ago I tried to get one with a Ralink RT2561 chipset to work
under CentOS 5.2 and 5.3.  The drivers included with CentOS don't work,
period.  Ralink's own drivers kind of works if you can bear reading
their instructions in "English"...but the card drops its connection all
over the place.

I tried RT61 drivers from serialmonkey.com.  They worked slighty better
but still the thing dropped its connection very frequently.

Eventually I gave up on it.  I must've spent close to a week's worth of
evenings trying to get it to run properly.

It sucks.

-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of m.roth at 5-cent.us
Sent: 09 September 2009 02:28
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: CentOS and wireless, oh my

So, at home, I'm finally going up from opensuse 10.3 to CentOS 5.3. With
opensuse 10.3, two years old, yast had utterly no trouble configuring my
wireless card, with the madwifi driver, and handling WPA.

I can't find a way using any script or gui to configure this in CentOS.
So
I googled. I finally find I have to run wpa_supplicant, though it's not
clear if before or after I run ifup wlan0.

HOWEVER, it's supposed to run as a daemon, I gather. Nope. I run it, and
it apparently crashes. Nothing showing with ps -ef, and in spite of -dd,
nothing in /var/log.

Clues for the incredibly irritated?

       mark

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