[Lilux-help] Wireless NIC - CENTRINO!!!

[Pascal Steichen]

On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 08:30:58AM +0100, Eric Dondelinger wrote:
> Hi Georges,
> 
> On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Georges Toth wrote:
> 
> > Intel has released opensource centrino drivers, today. for kernel 2.4 and 2.6.
> > You see eric, i told you i read somewhere that would be to be released very
> > soon :-D
> 
> Yup, seen the /. article - I only seriously doubt that this is
> done by Intel themselves, i.e. even if it's an Intel employee
> that's writing this, doesn't mean the company is behind it.
> The guy has no doc to go from, nothing - that's definitely not
> what I'd expect from an officially supported driver.
> 
> As for the SlashDot writeup, it wouldn't (by far) be the first
> time that it is not entirely accurate (put nicely).
> 
> To me, this looks much more like what happened with the TI
> ACX 100 chipset - people got fed up with the lack of Linux
> (or *BSD or whatever) driver, and started up a project for
> themselves, not waiting for anything from the manufacturer.

Nonetheless this argumentation, I did put it in the news of our website ;) It's good news anyway !


> 
> Greets, Eric
> 
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