On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 01:59:08AM -0000, Donald wrote: > I am trying to install a wireless adapter to my laptop. I am running Linnux > Centos. My does not seem to recognized that something new it been connected > to one of it's USB connector. > Don > CentOS runs an older kernel than most versions of Linux and is often behind in drviers. If you know the type of adapter (you can usually find it with Device Manager if you still have Windows installed, or run Ubuntu on a live CD, and try to figure out what type of adapter it is.
Then, you can look at elrepo.org, and see if they make an rpm for that card. The Elrepo folks make a bunch of drivers for hardware that isn't supported by the main CentOS/RedHat distributions. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Cordelia: We were just discussing whether or not we should offer to pay Gunn. Angel: No you weren't. Wesley: Well, our discussions tend to go about 3 minutes, then it's strictly name calling and hair pulling. ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
