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Making Centos 6 wireless work on your laptop or desktop. Contents Making Wireless work on your laptop or desktop Wireless support Wireless firmware Tested hardware Intel Pro Wireless ipw Intel Pro Wireless ipw Intel Pro Wireless iwl Intel Pro Wireless ipw Intel Wireless WiFi Link AGN iwl and iwlagn Intel R Wireless Centos 6 wireless Link AGNand iwlagn Atheros AR, AR, AR ath5k Atheros AR ath9k Atheros madwifi ZyDAS ZD b The kernel shipped with CentOS is not the latest and greatest kernel, it is a known, stable and proven kernel that may be a few years old depending on the release. Because of this, newer drivers centos 6 wireless not be available for this kernel, even though Red Hat does backport newer wireless drivers to their stable kernel. You can find more information of your wireless hardware from the Linux Wireless website to get more information about the driver and the hardware support. We have listed some hardware that is supported, but would welcome more information to improve this wiki. Although this page concentrates on laptops, much of the material is applicable to any wireless connection, regardless of platform. Some modern laptops require firmware to make the wireless network connection work on CentOS. The main reason for this is that wireless device manufacturers do not allow the free redistribution of the firmware that is required to make the device work. For this reason CentOS does not ship it by default and your wireless network does not work out of the box. However, the solution is simple. Intel Pro Wireless ipw If you have a working network connection and you have RPMforge configured in yumthen it is really simple, just install ipwfirmware by doing: yum install ipwfirmware. Your wireless device should be working now. Enable NetworkManager to use it.



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