Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 supported hardware
On Sunday, July 10, 2011 12:24 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > Christopher Chan wrote: >> On Saturday, July 09, 2011 10:35 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: >>> On Friday, July 08, 2011 12:01:36 PM Christopher Chan wrote: Professional Wireless Router? That knocked me off my seat :-D. 'Wireless router' has become associated in my mind with that device you put in homes. So what professional wireless routers are out there? >>> Cisco has a few; see the ISR G2 1941W for one that is a 'cut above' the >>> former Linksys product lines. >>> >>> Larger Cisco ISR's (2900 and 3900 series) support a network module that >>> acts as a supervisor of sorts for Cisco access points, too. >> >> /me shrugs. I am happy as a fish in water with them Aerohive 340 APs and >> HP 2910al PoE+ switches. Lifetime warranty, downloadable firmware for >> the switches and the access points have proven to be pain free once setup. >> >> No blooming uber expensive support contract to deal with. > > Those can be marked as Office applications, but not the professional. What are you blabbering about? What Office applications? > > Professional link Today would be those that can pass 150Mbps of *real* > throughtput with full routing up to the distance of 30km, or 75Mbps up > to 55km. And it can be done under 1000 EUR ($1500) without large > batteries, solar chargers or similar accessory gear. > And those "routers/AP's" that are rated 300Mbps and have 100Mbps LAN and > weak CPU. heh. > Excuse me? We are talking about WIFI and not just wireless 'wan' links right? In any case, I suspect that the Aerohive 340 can do uber km too with a change to directional antennae and other stuff to boost signal quality. BTW, if you are implying that the Aerohive only has FastEthernet ports, you are dead wrong. They have dual Gigabit ports, have done 20MiB/sec transfers on a single host, support up to 40 clients simultaneously and these were the results in the UAT. A bit short of their claim of 60 clients simultaneously but that is probably human error...we did not have 60 persons to simultaneously click the file download but we managed to get 40 going at the same time. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 supported hardware
Christopher Chan wrote: > On Saturday, July 09, 2011 10:35 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: >> On Friday, July 08, 2011 12:01:36 PM Christopher Chan wrote: >>> Professional Wireless Router? That knocked me off my seat :-D. 'Wireless >>> router' has become associated in my mind with that device you put in >>> homes. So what professional wireless routers are out there? >> Cisco has a few; see the ISR G2 1941W for one that is a 'cut above' the >> former Linksys product lines. >> >> Larger Cisco ISR's (2900 and 3900 series) support a network module that acts >> as a supervisor of sorts for Cisco access points, too. > > /me shrugs. I am happy as a fish in water with them Aerohive 340 APs and > HP 2910al PoE+ switches. Lifetime warranty, downloadable firmware for > the switches and the access points have proven to be pain free once setup. > > No blooming uber expensive support contract to deal with. Those can be marked as Office applications, but not the professional. Professional link Today would be those that can pass 150Mbps of *real* throughtput with full routing up to the distance of 30km, or 75Mbps up to 55km. And it can be done under 1000 EUR ($1500) without large batteries, solar chargers or similar accessory gear. And those "routers/AP's" that are rated 300Mbps and have 100Mbps LAN and weak CPU. heh. Ljubomir ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 supported hardware
On Saturday, July 09, 2011 10:35 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Friday, July 08, 2011 12:01:36 PM Christopher Chan wrote: >> Professional Wireless Router? That knocked me off my seat :-D. 'Wireless >> router' has become associated in my mind with that device you put in >> homes. So what professional wireless routers are out there? > > Cisco has a few; see the ISR G2 1941W for one that is a 'cut above' the > former Linksys product lines. > > Larger Cisco ISR's (2900 and 3900 series) support a network module that acts > as a supervisor of sorts for Cisco access points, too. /me shrugs. I am happy as a fish in water with them Aerohive 340 APs and HP 2910al PoE+ switches. Lifetime warranty, downloadable firmware for the switches and the access points have proven to be pain free once setup. No blooming uber expensive support contract to deal with. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 supported hardware
On Friday, July 08, 2011 12:01:36 PM Christopher Chan wrote: > Professional Wireless Router? That knocked me off my seat :-D. 'Wireless > router' has become associated in my mind with that device you put in > homes. So what professional wireless routers are out there? Cisco has a few; see the ISR G2 1941W for one that is a 'cut above' the former Linksys product lines. Larger Cisco ISR's (2900 and 3900 series) support a network module that acts as a supervisor of sorts for Cisco access points, too. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 supported hardware
Christopher Chan wrote: >> And when I say routing, I mean RIP, OSPF, OLSR, BGP... > > Bah, those for are sissies. I know of one chap who manually maintained > the routing tables for checkpoint firewalls in a full mesh configuration > and who had over 20 sites in that particular vpn network (works for a > global conglomerate). Yes, I would be a sissy if I ever had to deploy a > multi-site vpn network/multi-site network. :-P That is not so hard to do if you know what you are doing. I can create that 20+ network with StarOS routers on each site and OLSR or OSPF dynamic routing that practically would not need any maintainance, even with almost all units behind firewall/NAT (No public IP). With encryption and all. I can do it even with Mikrotik, but that is little different beast, needs routed (public) IP's an all sites. Ljubomir ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 supported hardware
On Saturday, July 09, 2011 12:48 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > Christopher Chan wrote: >> On Thursday, July 07, 2011 11:53 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: >>> Lamar Owen wrote: The Apple Airport in an Intel Mac is Broadcom; many Intel Dell's have the option of Broadcom, which is typically less expensive than the 3945 or similar Intel wireless chipset. My Dell Inspiron 640m came with a Broadcom card; my Precision M65 had an Intel 3945 but has a Broadcom now (for other various reasons that are beyond the scope of the CentOS list). The one AMD laptop I had that had PCIe wifi had an Atheros chipset. but YMMV. >>> Intel, Broadcom, Ralink and Realtek chips are mostly used only for >>> Laptops. Any decent (professional) Wireless router will have Atheros >>> based radio. And the are excellent Atheros open source drivers. >> >> Professional Wireless Router? That knocked me off my seat :-D. 'Wireless >> router' has become associated in my mind with that device you put in >> homes. So what professional wireless routers are out there? I have >> Aerohive 340 access points over here (uses Atheros btw) but I cannot >> seem to remember whether it supported routing but it does support tying >> profiles to vlans and a host of other stuff. > > There are Wireless Access points (without routing capability) and only > one wireless radio, semi-routers with only one wireless radio but with > rudimentary routing and firewall/NAT support (most Ubiquity products) > and there are full fledged routers with one or multiple LAN and wireless > radios cards. > > In the last group, most used is Mikrotik hardware with their RouterOS > software that supports most of the routing protocols and extensive > firewall/NAT/mangle capabilities. My favorite is StarOS software that > runs on larger number of hardware platforms including regular PC's (as > does RouterOS). There are other software/OS's but those 2 are, in my > opinion, the best ones. > Both of them support *only* Atheros chipsets. > > And when I say routing, I mean RIP, OSPF, OLSR, BGP... Bah, those for are sissies. I know of one chap who manually maintained the routing tables for checkpoint firewalls in a full mesh configuration and who had over 20 sites in that particular vpn network (works for a global conglomerate). Yes, I would be a sissy if I ever had to deploy a multi-site vpn network/multi-site network. :-P > >>> From manufacturers, Winstron and Compex are most respected. This is >>> from 7 years of professional experience. >> >> Let's see if we win the obscure wireless product awards ;) > > I was refering to manufacturers of Atheros based radio cards, not > routers. Sorry is I have not stated that clearly. > OIC. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 supported hardware
Christopher Chan wrote: > On Thursday, July 07, 2011 11:53 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: >> Lamar Owen wrote: >>> The Apple Airport in an Intel Mac is Broadcom; many Intel Dell's have the >>> option of Broadcom, which is typically less expensive than the 3945 or >>> similar Intel wireless chipset. My Dell Inspiron 640m came with a Broadcom >>> card; my Precision M65 had an Intel 3945 but has a Broadcom now (for other >>> various reasons that are beyond the scope of the CentOS list). >>> >>> The one AMD laptop I had that had PCIe wifi had an Atheros chipset. but >>> YMMV. >> Intel, Broadcom, Ralink and Realtek chips are mostly used only for >> Laptops. Any decent (professional) Wireless router will have Atheros >> based radio. And the are excellent Atheros open source drivers. > > Professional Wireless Router? That knocked me off my seat :-D. 'Wireless > router' has become associated in my mind with that device you put in > homes. So what professional wireless routers are out there? I have > Aerohive 340 access points over here (uses Atheros btw) but I cannot > seem to remember whether it supported routing but it does support tying > profiles to vlans and a host of other stuff. There are Wireless Access points (without routing capability) and only one wireless radio, semi-routers with only one wireless radio but with rudimentary routing and firewall/NAT support (most Ubiquity products) and there are full fledged routers with one or multiple LAN and wireless radios cards. In the last group, most used is Mikrotik hardware with their RouterOS software that supports most of the routing protocols and extensive firewall/NAT/mangle capabilities. My favorite is StarOS software that runs on larger number of hardware platforms including regular PC's (as does RouterOS). There are other software/OS's but those 2 are, in my opinion, the best ones. Both of them support *only* Atheros chipsets. And when I say routing, I mean RIP, OSPF, OLSR, BGP... >> From manufacturers, Winstron and Compex are most respected. This is >> from 7 years of professional experience. > > Let's see if we win the obscure wireless product awards ;) I was refering to manufacturers of Atheros based radio cards, not routers. Sorry is I have not stated that clearly. Ljubomir ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 supported hardware
On Thursday, July 07, 2011 11:53 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > Lamar Owen wrote: >> >> The Apple Airport in an Intel Mac is Broadcom; many Intel Dell's have the >> option of Broadcom, which is typically less expensive than the 3945 or >> similar Intel wireless chipset. My Dell Inspiron 640m came with a Broadcom >> card; my Precision M65 had an Intel 3945 but has a Broadcom now (for other >> various reasons that are beyond the scope of the CentOS list). >> >> The one AMD laptop I had that had PCIe wifi had an Atheros chipset. but >> YMMV. > > Intel, Broadcom, Ralink and Realtek chips are mostly used only for > Laptops. Any decent (professional) Wireless router will have Atheros > based radio. And the are excellent Atheros open source drivers. Professional Wireless Router? That knocked me off my seat :-D. 'Wireless router' has become associated in my mind with that device you put in homes. So what professional wireless routers are out there? I have Aerohive 340 access points over here (uses Atheros btw) but I cannot seem to remember whether it supported routing but it does support tying profiles to vlans and a host of other stuff. > > From manufacturers, Winstron and Compex are most respected. This is > from 7 years of professional experience. Let's see if we win the obscure wireless product awards ;) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 supported hardware
On 7/8/2011 1:33 AM, ramazan arslan wrote: > Where can I download centos 6. where to find the current version of the > iso link. please help If I recall correctly it hasn't been released yet. I believe the last I heard it was going to the mirrors this week, but isn't available yet for download. -- Mark Weaver Computer Information Systems & Services, Inc. mwea...@compinfosystems.com (717) 512-9718 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 supported hardware
Where can I download centos 6. where to find the current version of the iso link. please help ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 supported hardware
Lamar Owen wrote: > > The Apple Airport in an Intel Mac is Broadcom; many Intel Dell's have the > option of Broadcom, which is typically less expensive than the 3945 or > similar Intel wireless chipset. My Dell Inspiron 640m came with a Broadcom > card; my Precision M65 had an Intel 3945 but has a Broadcom now (for other > various reasons that are beyond the scope of the CentOS list). > > The one AMD laptop I had that had PCIe wifi had an Atheros chipset. but > YMMV. Intel, Broadcom, Ralink and Realtek chips are mostly used only for Laptops. Any decent (professional) Wireless router will have Atheros based radio. And the are excellent Atheros open source drivers. From manufacturers, Winstron and Compex are most respected. This is from 7 years of professional experience. > And just in case no one has said it lately, thanks to you and all the ELrepo > folks for your efforts; even though I'm not currently using ELrepo for > anything, I certainly appreciate what you'ns do. +1 Ljubomir ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 supported hardware
On Wednesday, July 06, 2011 04:36:39 PM Ned Slider wrote: > Yes, I see a couple of other repos are shipping kmod-wl binaries. We > noted that at the time we took legal advice to establish if we had > possibly misinterpreted the License. They obviously don't share our > concerns about the licensing terms for redistribution (or maybe they > just didn't read them too closely) :-/ Understood. Obviously, don't put something in the repo you're not comfortable shipping; the .nosrc.rpm technique, with a documented build setup, to let people roll their own is fine, and has been used before for 'redistribution-restricted' code (like Sun/Oracle Java). > Personally I'd rather try to find a way to pressurise Broadcom into > doing the right thing by the Linux community rather than support (IMHO) > draconian licensing restrictions... The image in my mind of clamping a hyperbaric chamber over a whole company gave me the laugh of the day, thanks so much for the Freudian slip on 'pressurise'. perhaps thats common usage in your location; in mine we'd say 'pressure' or 'leverage' but reserve 'pressurize' for things like air compressors and such > Shame, as Broadcom adapters seem particularly prevalent > on AMD-based laptops. I bought an Intel-based laptop where pretty much > everything works with CentOS out of the box :-/ The Apple Airport in an Intel Mac is Broadcom; many Intel Dell's have the option of Broadcom, which is typically less expensive than the 3945 or similar Intel wireless chipset. My Dell Inspiron 640m came with a Broadcom card; my Precision M65 had an Intel 3945 but has a Broadcom now (for other various reasons that are beyond the scope of the CentOS list). The one AMD laptop I had that had PCIe wifi had an Atheros chipset. but YMMV. And just in case no one has said it lately, thanks to you and all the ELrepo folks for your efforts; even though I'm not currently using ELrepo for anything, I certainly appreciate what you'ns do. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 supported hardware
On 7/6/2011 4:36 PM, Ned Slider wrote: > On 06/07/11 13:32, Lamar Owen wrote: >> On Tuesday, July 05, 2011 06:19:58 PM Ned Slider wrote: >>> On 05/07/11 10:09, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Broadcom has license restrictions so even ElRepo guys wont create rpms, but there is howto, even for CentOS 5: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless/Broadcom >> >>> We (elrepo) certainly aren't prepared to create and redistribute binary >>> "kmod-wl" RPMS given the Broadcom licensing restrictions. >> >> For Fedora the RPMfusion 'nonfree' repo has kmod-wl and friends. An >> EPEL-based RPMfusion for EL is in testing, but kmod-wl and friends are not >> there yet. >> > > Hi Lamar, > > Yes, I see a couple of other repos are shipping kmod-wl binaries. We > noted that at the time we took legal advice to establish if we had > possibly misinterpreted the License. They obviously don't share our > concerns about the licensing terms for redistribution (or maybe they > just didn't read them too closely) :-/ > > Personally I'd rather try to find a way to pressurise Broadcom into > doing the right thing by the Linux community rather than support (IMHO) > draconian licensing restrictions... but somehow I doubt Broadcom really > care that much. Other vendors find a way to license their non-free > content in a less restrictive way that permits unencumbered > redistribution. Shame, as Broadcom adapters seem particularly prevalent > on AMD-based laptops. I bought an Intel-based laptop where pretty much > everything works with CentOS out of the box :-/ It is indeed a shame because in my humble opinion the AMD processors are much better than Intel. What's interesting though is that none of the distros I've previewed on this laptop have had any trouble with the LAN chipset in that it is able to connect to the network. It's mostly just the WLAN mini-card. Given the choice I'll take an AMD over and Intel processor any day whether it's a server or a desktop. All my servers, save one, have AMD Opteron chips in them and those servers I've been deploying for clients where its possible have AMD Opterons in them. (Dell R415 is an excellent example.) -- Mark Weaver Computer Information Systems & Services, Inc. mwea...@compinfosystems.com (717) 512-9718 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 supported hardware
On 06/07/11 13:32, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Tuesday, July 05, 2011 06:19:58 PM Ned Slider wrote: >> On 05/07/11 10:09, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: >>> Broadcom has license restrictions so even ElRepo guys wont create rpms, >>> but there is howto, even for CentOS 5: >>> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless/Broadcom > >> We (elrepo) certainly aren't prepared to create and redistribute binary >> "kmod-wl" RPMS given the Broadcom licensing restrictions. > > For Fedora the RPMfusion 'nonfree' repo has kmod-wl and friends. An > EPEL-based RPMfusion for EL is in testing, but kmod-wl and friends are not > there yet. > Hi Lamar, Yes, I see a couple of other repos are shipping kmod-wl binaries. We noted that at the time we took legal advice to establish if we had possibly misinterpreted the License. They obviously don't share our concerns about the licensing terms for redistribution (or maybe they just didn't read them too closely) :-/ Personally I'd rather try to find a way to pressurise Broadcom into doing the right thing by the Linux community rather than support (IMHO) draconian licensing restrictions... but somehow I doubt Broadcom really care that much. Other vendors find a way to license their non-free content in a less restrictive way that permits unencumbered redistribution. Shame, as Broadcom adapters seem particularly prevalent on AMD-based laptops. I bought an Intel-based laptop where pretty much everything works with CentOS out of the box :-/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 supported hardware
On Tuesday, July 05, 2011 06:19:58 PM Ned Slider wrote: > On 05/07/11 10:09, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > > Broadcom has license restrictions so even ElRepo guys wont create rpms, > > but there is howto, even for CentOS 5: > > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless/Broadcom > We (elrepo) certainly aren't prepared to create and redistribute binary > "kmod-wl" RPMS given the Broadcom licensing restrictions. For Fedora the RPMfusion 'nonfree' repo has kmod-wl and friends. An EPEL-based RPMfusion for EL is in testing, but kmod-wl and friends are not there yet. Caveats abound for using rpmfusion-nonfree. Please see the rpmfusion.org site for more info. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 supported hardware
On 05/07/11 10:09, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > Mark Weaver wrote: >> On 7/4/2011 10:41 PM, Scott Robbins wrote: >>> On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 10:30:08PM -0400, Mark Weaver wrote: Has anyone seen a supported hardware list on CentOS 6? I've been looking around for the last few days; even looked at RedHat's site but didn't find one. I've got a Dell Inspiron 1501 with a Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN mini-card in it and I'm trying to find out if it's going to have native driver support for the WIFI. >>> I think most of the Dell Inspirons actually have a Broadcom 1390. >>> There's plenty of posts on it on Fedora forum, not sure how much will be >>> applicable to CentOS 6. >> >> I took a look at the Fedora 15 live CD and it didn't have any idea what >> to do with the WIFI chipset. As I recall it didn't even see it. >> > > Broadcom has license restrictions so even ElRepo guys wont create rpms, > but there is howto, even for CentOS 5: > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless/Broadcom > > Ljubomir That was true, but... We (elrepo) certainly aren't prepared to create and redistribute binary "kmod-wl" RPMS given the Broadcom licensing restrictions. However, one of our colleagues recently required these packages so we did knock up some kmod packages for el5 and el6 for our own internal not to be redistributed private use. As there is evidently a high demand for them, we have decided to make available our SRPMS (well, .nosrc.rpm actually) which end users can rebuild themselves. http://elrepo.org/linux/elrepo/el5/SRPMS/wl-kmod-5_100_82_38-1.el5.elrepo.nosrc.rpm http://elrepo.org/linux/elrepo/el6/SRPMS/wl-kmod-5_100_82_38-2.el6.elrepo.nosrc.rpm Because these packages do not contain or redistribute anything from Broadcom they are not subject to Broadcom's licensing, hence we feel we are able to distribute them if they benefit the community. I think we have some detailed directions somewhere on how to build the packages from our SRPMS so perhaps one of my colleagues will get that posted up shortly. Hope that helps. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 supported hardware
On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 10:43:37PM -0400, Mark Weaver wrote: > On 7/4/2011 10:41 PM, Scott Robbins wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 10:30:08PM -0400, Mark Weaver wrote: > >> Has anyone seen a supported hardware list on CentOS 6? > >> > >> I've got a Dell Inspiron 1501 with a Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN mini-card > >> in it and I'm trying to find out if it's going to have native driver > >> support for the WIFI. > > > > I think most of the Dell Inspirons actually have a Broadcom 1390. > > There's plenty of posts on it on Fedora forum, not sure how much will be > > applicable to CentOS 6. > > I took a look at the Fedora 15 live CD and it didn't have any idea what > to do with the WIFI chipset. As I recall it didn't even see it. > That's possible--not having one, I haven't paid too much attention, but there's a mod on the Fedora fora with the username of stoat, and he gives the solution all the time. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Buffy: Cordelia, your mouth is open, sound is coming from it, this is never good. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 supported hardware
On 7/5/2011 5:33 AM, B.J. McClure wrote: > On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 11:09 +0200, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: >> Mark Weaver wrote: >>> On 7/4/2011 10:41 PM, Scott Robbins wrote: On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 10:30:08PM -0400, Mark Weaver wrote: > Has anyone seen a supported hardware list on CentOS 6? I've been looking > around for the last few days; even looked at RedHat's site but didn't > find one. > > I've got a Dell Inspiron 1501 with a Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN mini-card > in it and I'm trying to find out if it's going to have native driver > support for the WIFI. I think most of the Dell Inspirons actually have a Broadcom 1390. There's plenty of posts on it on Fedora forum, not sure how much will be applicable to CentOS 6. >>> >>> I took a look at the Fedora 15 live CD and it didn't have any idea what >>> to do with the WIFI chipset. As I recall it didn't even see it. >>> >> >> Broadcom has license restrictions so even ElRepo guys wont create rpms, >> but there is howto, even for CentOS 5: >> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless/Broadcom >> >> Ljubomir > > Broadcom released open source drivers in Fall of 2010 for both 32& 64 > bit systems. I do not know if it supports the 1390 chip. It does > support 4300 series chips and b43-fwcutter, for extracting and > installing firmware, and b43 driver are shipped with RHEL 6. One should > probably assume the same support in CentOS 6. > > HTH, > B.J. > > RHEL 6.0, Linux 2.6.32-131.2.1.el6.x86_64 well then... this is good news and I'll have to wait till 6 is released. Thank you for the info. -- Mark Weaver Computer Information Systems & Services, Inc. mwea...@compinfosystems.com (717) 512-9718 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 supported hardware
On 7/5/2011 5:09 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > Mark Weaver wrote: >> On 7/4/2011 10:41 PM, Scott Robbins wrote: >>> On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 10:30:08PM -0400, Mark Weaver wrote: Has anyone seen a supported hardware list on CentOS 6? I've been looking around for the last few days; even looked at RedHat's site but didn't find one. I've got a Dell Inspiron 1501 with a Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN mini-card in it and I'm trying to find out if it's going to have native driver support for the WIFI. >>> I think most of the Dell Inspirons actually have a Broadcom 1390. >>> There's plenty of posts on it on Fedora forum, not sure how much will be >>> applicable to CentOS 6. >> >> I took a look at the Fedora 15 live CD and it didn't have any idea what >> to do with the WIFI chipset. As I recall it didn't even see it. >> > > Broadcom has license restrictions so even ElRepo guys wont create rpms, > but there is howto, even for CentOS 5: > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless/Broadcom > > Ljubomir Wow I'd forgotten CentOS has a wiki; thank you! -- Mark Weaver Computer Information Systems & Services, Inc. mwea...@compinfosystems.com (717) 512-9718 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 supported hardware
Mark, On Tuesday, July 5, 2011 you wrote: > Has anyone seen a supported hardware list on CentOS 6? Check my question regarding the same question from May. 3rd this year with the subject "list of supported hardware". There is a list of certified hardware, but no list of supported hardware. I find this strange as in my opinion the hardware support is mainly handled in the kernel. If people are writing drivers for the kernel, it would be quite simple to ask them adding the supported hardware to a list. Some two years ago I had an issue with a new motherboard. After a kernel update, it had massive memory errors in the log-files. It turned out that a new kernel driver simply added the feature of reporting errors. They were there before, but not reported. I had to wade through the kernel source code and the history-files to figure out what had happened. Not really good, but OTOH no CENTOS problem. best regards --- Michael Schumacher PAMAS Partikelmess- und Analysesysteme GmbH Dieselstr.10, D-71277 Rutesheim Tel +49-7152-99630 Fax +49-7152-996333 Geschäftsführer: Gerhard Schreck Handelsregister B Stuttgart HRB 252024 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 supported hardware
On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 11:09 +0200, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > Mark Weaver wrote: > > On 7/4/2011 10:41 PM, Scott Robbins wrote: > >> On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 10:30:08PM -0400, Mark Weaver wrote: > >>> Has anyone seen a supported hardware list on CentOS 6? I've been looking > >>> around for the last few days; even looked at RedHat's site but didn't > >>> find one. > >>> > >>> I've got a Dell Inspiron 1501 with a Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN mini-card > >>> in it and I'm trying to find out if it's going to have native driver > >>> support for the WIFI. > >> I think most of the Dell Inspirons actually have a Broadcom 1390. > >> There's plenty of posts on it on Fedora forum, not sure how much will be > >> applicable to CentOS 6. > > > > I took a look at the Fedora 15 live CD and it didn't have any idea what > > to do with the WIFI chipset. As I recall it didn't even see it. > > > > Broadcom has license restrictions so even ElRepo guys wont create rpms, > but there is howto, even for CentOS 5: > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless/Broadcom > > Ljubomir Broadcom released open source drivers in Fall of 2010 for both 32 & 64 bit systems. I do not know if it supports the 1390 chip. It does support 4300 series chips and b43-fwcutter, for extracting and installing firmware, and b43 driver are shipped with RHEL 6. One should probably assume the same support in CentOS 6. HTH, B.J. RHEL 6.0, Linux 2.6.32-131.2.1.el6.x86_64 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 supported hardware
Mark Weaver wrote: > On 7/4/2011 10:41 PM, Scott Robbins wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 10:30:08PM -0400, Mark Weaver wrote: >>> Has anyone seen a supported hardware list on CentOS 6? I've been looking >>> around for the last few days; even looked at RedHat's site but didn't >>> find one. >>> >>> I've got a Dell Inspiron 1501 with a Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN mini-card >>> in it and I'm trying to find out if it's going to have native driver >>> support for the WIFI. >> I think most of the Dell Inspirons actually have a Broadcom 1390. >> There's plenty of posts on it on Fedora forum, not sure how much will be >> applicable to CentOS 6. > > I took a look at the Fedora 15 live CD and it didn't have any idea what > to do with the WIFI chipset. As I recall it didn't even see it. > Broadcom has license restrictions so even ElRepo guys wont create rpms, but there is howto, even for CentOS 5: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless/Broadcom Ljubomir ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 supported hardware
From: Mark Weaver > Has anyone seen a supported hardware list on CentOS 6? I've been looking > around for the last few days; even looked at RedHat's site but didn't > find one. Maybe try here: https://hardware.redhat.com/ JD ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 supported hardware
On 7/4/2011 10:41 PM, Scott Robbins wrote: > On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 10:30:08PM -0400, Mark Weaver wrote: >> Has anyone seen a supported hardware list on CentOS 6? I've been looking >> around for the last few days; even looked at RedHat's site but didn't >> find one. >> >> I've got a Dell Inspiron 1501 with a Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN mini-card >> in it and I'm trying to find out if it's going to have native driver >> support for the WIFI. > > I think most of the Dell Inspirons actually have a Broadcom 1390. > There's plenty of posts on it on Fedora forum, not sure how much will be > applicable to CentOS 6. I took a look at the Fedora 15 live CD and it didn't have any idea what to do with the WIFI chipset. As I recall it didn't even see it. -- Mark Weaver Computer Information Systems & Services, Inc. mwea...@compinfosystems.com (717) 512-9718 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 supported hardware
On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 10:30:08PM -0400, Mark Weaver wrote: > Has anyone seen a supported hardware list on CentOS 6? I've been looking > around for the last few days; even looked at RedHat's site but didn't > find one. > > I've got a Dell Inspiron 1501 with a Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN mini-card > in it and I'm trying to find out if it's going to have native driver > support for the WIFI. I think most of the Dell Inspirons actually have a Broadcom 1390. There's plenty of posts on it on Fedora forum, not sure how much will be applicable to CentOS 6. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Willow: So, how did it go? Xander: On a scale from one to ten? It sucked. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
