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Intel Putting Wi-Fi into Future Chipsets

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the obvious-inevitabilities dept.

Ridgelift writes "Wired's got the story on Intel's plan to incorporate Wi-Fi into the motherboard chipset. "The chipset, however, will not include an actual Wi-Fi radio, so users will still need a wireless add-on card. Intel has said it eventually intends build a Wi-Fi radio into its microprocessors." This would make setting up a wireless network a lot simpler."

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  1. Re:Really? by blackketter · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    How easy or hard it is depends on the software that drives the thing. Setting up an Apple Airport network is extremely simple, and the 802.11 support in XP is pretty darned good.

    modprobe doesn't seem to me to be a simple way to set up anything.