Most of your message is a rant against Intel, and hardly worth
responding to, IMO. But there are a few items I want to correct.
D. Eckert wrote:
> In the past Intel Inc. USA has taken legal actions against the openSolaris
> community and their developers because they tried to develop a driver for the
> Intel Wifi 4665 ABG chip what should be supported by the openSolaris / Sun
> Solaris Operating System.
>
Huh? The 4965 *is* supported on OpenSolaris, as open source. I don't
know about any such legal action. You should be able to use this chip
without problem. (I don't know about any 4665 part, though -- I'm
assuming you mean the 4965.)
I know many people use the WiFi on the Lenovo T61 just fine with
OpenSolaris. (Not with Solaris 10, but that's more because we don't
support *any* WiFi in Solaris 10. If you want WiFi, use OpenSolaris.)
> It took about almost 2 years to resolve this trail and meanwhile Intel could
> introduce successfully this particular chip set to the market.
>
> My Lenovo Notebook declines PCI-Express Cards e. g. from the Vendor Atheros
> due to an implemented bios lock what declines other wifi cards from other
> vendors, e. g. Atheros, and there's no known proceedure how to override the
> lock.
>
BIOS locks for these things are not uncommon, but I doubt that Intel is
to blame. Ask Lenovo about it. (Though, admittedly, this is the first
time I've heard about one used with an Intel part. But then again, the
Intel parts have always worked for me so I've never had cause to replace
one. The Broadcom WiFi parts that have similiar locks are a totally
different matter, since there is not any support for Broadcom on a large
number of platforms.)
> What Intel Inc. USA didn't recognice for years and what they miss is, that
> without making any exception, chipsets from AMD were better supported and
> always had a better performance on OpenSorce-based Operating Systems e. g.
> Sun Solaris / openSolaris.
>
Huh? The performance battles go back and forth, and really depend on
the individual chips and the workloads being used. Opterons have always
been hailed for server kinds of tasks because of their HT bus. (QPI may
change that picture though I've not measured it myself.) On the other
hand, Core systems have had better performance per watt than pretty much
any of the AMD alternatives.
The rest of your message is pretty much utter tripe.
- Garrett
