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Intel Putting Wi-Fi into Future Chipsets

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. Intel linux support sucks by pe1rxq · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They will probably promise to provide Linux driver like with the centrino chipset and then not even make specs available.
    You will get all kind of lame excuses:
    - We are working on a driver.... (For half a year already)
    - We can't tell you how to operate it because the FCC won't let us (Complete bullshit but sounds nice: 'linux hackers want to interfere with police radio')
    - They might release some binary only modules... (Redhat version bla.bla, kernel version bla.bla and nothing else)

    Jeroen

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