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[RESOLVED] Installation Issue Wireless LAN card TrendNet TEW-423PI in Centos 6.2

Posted: 2012/05/02 15:50:41
by mystirious
I have installed Centos 6.2 but need help installing TrendNet TEW-423PI wireless adapter here is the output of lspci -v | egrep ethernet

05:02.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5782 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03)

05:09.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88w8335 [Libertas] 802.11b/g Wireless (rev 03)

Re: Installation Issue Wireless LAN card TrendNet TEW-423PI in Centos 6.2

Posted: 2012/05/02 19:25:56
by Aquazone
And what exactly is your problem?

Linux drivers are officially available by [url=http://www.broadcom.com/support/ethernet_nic/netxtreme_desktop.php]Broadcom.[/url]

And [url=http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/marvell-88w8335-chipset-netgear-wg311-pcicard-driver/]here[/url] is an idea about how to install the wireless driver.

It's for debian based systems but I think you can adapt it to work on CentOS.

[RESOLVED] Installation Issue Wireless LAN card TrendNet TEW

Posted: 2012/05/02 19:40:23
by gerald_clark
better is to install drivers from elrepo.org
http://elrepo.org/tiki/tiki-index.php

The FAQ has instructions for identifying the correct driver.

Re: Installation Issue Wireless LAN card TrendNet TEW-423PI in Centos 6.2

Posted: 2012/05/02 20:09:58
by Crunch
also if you run lspci -vnn|grep -i ether

this will give you the XXXX:YYYY id

Essentially, you should have the above module loaded. If you go to http://elrepo.org/tiki/DeviceIDs and do a ctrl-F for find and search for XXXX:YYYY you should find your module. the of the module will appear as .ko on the page. You can use XXXX:YYYYas a lookup key for .

this will tell you exactly which module you should have loaded.

do lsmod |grep to see if the module is loaded. If it is not, try loading with modprobe . If it is missing, install the package for that module from elrepo. This should get you up.

Re: Installation Issue Wireless LAN card TrendNet TEW-423PI in Centos 6.2

Posted: 2012/05/03 13:07:04
by mystirious
Thank you for your reply, when I run lspci -vnn | grep -i ether

05:09.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88w8335 [Libertas] 802.11b/g Wireless [11ab:1faa] (rev 03)

so this is the id 11ab:1faa] and when I checked it into http://elrepo.org/tiki/DeviceIDs It was not listed there

am trying to install trendnet wireless lan card in my centos 6.2

Re: Installation Issue Wireless LAN card TrendNet TEW-423PI in Centos 6.2

Posted: 2012/05/03 13:48:06
by Crunch
there doesn't appear to be a readily available linux driver for that device. You can probably get it working with some to a lot of effort. The best I can suggest is getting a device with more support or [url=http://www.google.com/search?q=11ab%3A1faa]googleing[/url] that device id

Re: Installation Issue Wireless LAN card TrendNet TEW-423PI in Centos 6.2

Posted: 2012/05/04 13:17:36
by mystirious
Dear All,
I really appreciate your help and time, Crunch you are right, the driver for this wireless LAN card is not readily available so I changed the wireless LAN Card and plugged in D-Link DWL-G520 and I was amazed that when I started the computer Centos 6.2 it automatically deducted this Card and I had to do nothing.

Re: Installation Issue Wireless LAN card TrendNet TEW-423PI in Centos 6.2

Posted: 2012/05/04 19:42:35
by pschaff
Welcome to the CentOS fora. Please see the recommended reading for new users linked in my signature.

Please let us know if you now consider the issue resolved.

Re: Installation Issue Wireless LAN card TrendNet TEW-423PI in Centos 6.2

Posted: 2012/05/05 03:32:08
by Crunch
[quote]
mystirious wrote:
Dear All,
I really appreciate your help and time, Crunch you are right, the driver for this wireless LAN card is not readily available so I changed the wireless LAN Card and plugged in D-Link DWL-G520 and I was amazed that when I started the computer Centos 6.2 it automatically deducted this Card and I had to do nothing.[/quote]

Yes, that difficulty doesn't happen too often. You might look at the hw compat list next time you're looking for hardware. http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/HardwareList . It isn't comprehensive but a good start. The upstream compat list is also relevant. https://hardware.redhat.com/ .

Also, please do, if you feel so, mark the post resolved as Phil asks.

Anyway, I hope it goes well.

Re: Installation Issue Wireless LAN card TrendNet TEW-423PI in Centos 6.2(Resolved)

Posted: 2012/05/05 09:31:09
by mystirious
OK. I am marking it as resolved.