Thank you Andras.

This was an Intel motherboard but I'm pretty sure the WiFi with an 
internal USB connector was identified as Broadcom but perhaps it is in 
the same family.

Joe

> On 3/26/13 12:14 PM, Andras Horvath wrote:
>
>
> I cannot recommend what would be the best, but instead I'd like to
> point out which one's not a good buy.
>
>  From one point of update since SL 6.2 I was continuously having
> problems with my Intel 3945 ABG wifi card. Serious kernel panics and
> hangings happened after a couple of minutes uptime. I read about
> similar problems on the net from CentOS systems too around the same
> time of my update.
>
> This card was working just fine before on SL, and even after on
> different Linux systems - later I even bought another card
> with the same chipset - but SL still produced the errors. So I replaced
> my card with one from Atheros and problems are gone.
>
> Andras
>
>
> On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 11:22:14 -0700
> Joseph Areeda <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> I tried to use the Broadcom WiFi that came with the motherboard
>> (don't have the model number right now).
>>
>> It seemed to not be recognized although Windows sees it fine in
>> another system.
>>
>> Would someone recommend a good USB Wifi that has current drivers for
>> SL6.3?  Or point me to a list of drivers available in the release
>> repositories?
>>
>> It's a long story but we need both wired and wireless on this system
>> and easier to buy a compatible interface rather than do much work to
>> find non-standard drivers.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Joe
>
> xxx
>