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Intel Releases Linux Driver For Centrino WLAN

Posted by timothy on from the usefulness dept.

Werner Heuser writes "Finally Intel has made their different announcements about Linux support for the WLAN part of the Centrino technology become true. Though not yet officially announced an Open-Source driver with included firmware is available at SourceForge. The driver is still experimental and supposed to work with 2.4 Kernels as well as with 2.6 ones." (See these previous stories for some background.)

5 of 285 comments (clear)

  1. Re:I don't get it by Halthar · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe they are truly in touch with open source projects everywhere, and when it comes to documentation simply said "screw it, someone else will write it!"

  2. Re:From ipw2100_main.c by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Whatever happened to meaningful variables (which is taught at age 12 before you even touch a language)

  3. Re:From ipw2100_main.c by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Duh!
    This is high performance code! Single-letter variable names execute more faster.
    U R teh st00p3d.

  4. Re:Open source? by cocotoni · · Score: 4, Funny

    Pray tell, on which non-x86 arch are you going to use Intel Centrino drivers for the INTEL Centrino processor on the INTEL board?

  5. Re:NDISWRAPPER by Inuchance · · Score: 4, Funny

    You're both right! You should continue to use NDISWRAPPER, while complaining about it every chance you get.