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Intel Releases Linux Driver For Centrino WLAN
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.)
My Dell Inspiron 600m is arriving today. Wheeeee...
if the answer isn't violence, neither is your silence / freedom of expression doesn't make it alright
I can remember the day when I could only get spotty support for most hardware on my Linux box. Buying a computer was complicated if I wanted to use Linux -- I might only have one or two choices for a component (i.e. soundcard) because the drivers came from the community. This is a great sign, if Intel starts supporting all of their products under Linux, other vendors will follow suit, and it won't be long before you'll see Lindows boxes alongside the Macs at CompUSA!
Great... this makes me much more pleased about my IBM t41 which is in the mail.
Now, any geeks around Chicago wanna help me get setup? Everytime I install linux on a laptop I only get it 90% correct, and manage to completely bork it based on the other 10% about 6 months down the road.
Why don't you try the candyman approach? Or doesn't MS count as a bogeyman?
I use ndiswrapper with my Truemobile 1400 card with gentoo. (Sorry. Had to say it. :P)
ndiswrapper 0.5 is absolutely great. It automagically installs using the windriver.inf file and autoloads. Downloads at >500 kb/s sustained. Does not crash.
I wonder if there can be more projects like this one that essentially steal windows drivers and puts them onto linux. There should be more unified driver APIs like ndis out there, right? I wonder if we can get rid of winmodems using wrappers.
On a sidenote, the Cisco VPN client 4.0 hangs on 2.6.3. It works if you switch to a new console. No one knows how to fix it yet. I was using the anomalistic patch, but nothing yet. I guess I have to backpatch the kernel. Yuck.
A NYC lawyer blogs. http://www.chuangblog.com/
I've been thinking about buying a new Dell laptop. Most of them come with a choice of Intel or Broadcom wireless adapters. Now, the availability of an Intel open source driver is good news, however, the Broadcom adapters offer better performance (802.11g vs 802.11b) and lower power usage for the same price.
I'll probably be modded to hell for saying this, but I think I would still buy the Broadcom, since it can also be made to work using the various NDIS wrapper projects.
(This isn't offtopic, read the parent)
btw, does linux support Airport Extreme yet?
If you have the Prism Chipset you should head to http://prism54.org
There's a working linux driver and lots of support. However, it's still VERY experimental and can be tough to get working... but it does work.
?Who controls the past now, controls the future.
Who controls the present now controls the past.?
True, I couldn't agree more! Especially if you have ever tried to speed up multiplication big matricies, by saving the second matrix transposed in the computer memory? That way the read ahead into L1 (and L2) caches that many CPU architectures use is used efficiently. Otherwise the CPU reads ahead the row, but we're really going down columns and so the main memory has to be accessed all the time instead of the fast CPU caches.