Hello,

I am new to CentOS 5.2. I have D-Link WUA-1340 wireless USB adapter that uses the rt73usb driver / module. At least I worked in Fedora 9 out of the box with that driver / module. I assume the Fedora 9 kernel supported it.

I really do not want to try and add a custom kernel to my instalation but I am wondering how I can get this to work on centOS 5.2.

I know first step is to get the adapter to be recognized by the system kernel. I think I can configure the network after that.

Any help or direction is truly appreciated.

Not famailair with that module it uses. If not in the kernel on Centos then you will need to add it. Either from the source of the module to compile it against the kernel source that will need to be installed if not already or upgrade to a kernel that has it built in. Not sure if you can apply a newer precompiled kernel rpm from fedora to centos 5. I have been using centos 5 for a while. I started having issues keeping it up with some of the latest kernels due to the way they have changed. Techincal it was not a centos 5 install but an rhel 3 release that I just updated rpms manually over the years. Recompiling srpm to work with it. I would say I was very close to an updated rhel 5 release. Finally got a new notebook and started with fedora 9 and never thought twice. Unless there is some benifit to using centos 5 with what you are doing then i would say go with fedora 9. Going fedora 9 was a new learning curve as to the way the Redhat family of distros has evolved. It is so much better. It would be nice if the RHEL or Centos would do some major updating but with RHEL being commercial designed it needs to be very sure on its updates so that is why I think it is so slow. Users of those distros require stable systems for daily use. Just look at how old centos 5 is with stock kernel of 2.6.16 versus fedora 9 with 2.6.25 or 2.6.26. I forget since I compile my own from the kernel source myself.


Brian