On 13/04/10 11:47, Patrick wrote:
> 2010/4/13  <[log in to unmask]>:
>> The kernel that RHEL, CentOS, & SL use is rather old, thus somewhat
>> short on wireless drivers (although it has backports).
> 
> That will change since Red Hat has increased the support for wireless
> lan with the release of RHEL 5.5. The latest kernel has more support
> now.
> 
> Regards,
> Patrick

The mac80211 wireless stack they're talking about was released nearly 3
years ago and has been in probably the last 4 or 5 iterations of the
major desktop distros. http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_22

I remember it since in the first version of Mandriva that had it my
wireless finally started working properly, but this is ancient history.

Use the right tool for the job - RHEL/SL for servers where the stability
and support is needed and one of Ubunutu, OpenSuse, Mandriva or Fedora
for your desktop where you want the wireless to work, the latest Wine,
the latest graphics card drives, etc.

Tim