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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.)

2 of 285 comments (clear)

  1. this driver wasn't released by Intel by gst · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yes, it's an open source centrino driver - but i wasn't released by intel. RTFWebsite before you post.

    http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/#about
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    This project was created to enable support for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 (IPW2100) mini PCI adapter. This project is intended to be a community effort as much as is possible given some working constraints (mainly, no HW documentation is available)
    ---snip---

  2. Re:Thanks, Intel... by DAldredge · · Score: 1, Troll

    The firmware is CLOSED SOURCE, just like the Nvidia driver module.