Re: [SLUG] Intel release Centrino wireless driver
On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 14:35, Jan Schmidt wrote: P.S. It appears to still require a limited-license binary firmware, and doesn't have a lot of features finished yet, but it's a step upward from having to load the windows driver using ndiswrapper. ndiswrapper works fairly well though for basic infrastructure connections (I used it at LCA2004 with NO problems). I hope this project progresses further and faster though... Did you try it out? How did it compare against ndiswrapper? -- Simon Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Intel release Centrino wireless driver
quote who=Simon Wong On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 14:35, Jan Schmidt wrote: P.S. It appears to still require a limited-license binary firmware, and doesn't have a lot of features finished yet, but it's a step upward from having to load the windows driver using ndiswrapper. ndiswrapper works fairly well though for basic infrastructure connections (I used it at LCA2004 with NO problems). Yeah, same. It works pretty well. A few hiccups with WEP, but otherwise good. I hope this project progresses further and faster though... I wish that it didn't have the binary firmware portion, although I can understand why Intel chose to do things that way. Did you try it out? Actually, I got distracted putting out a new gst-editor release and forgot to. How did it compare against ndiswrapper? Here's the cut and paste from the website, seemingly saying that it should be ok for unencrypted links if there are no errors encountered :) What it does: * Build (tested in 2.4.23-25, and 2.6.1-3) * Initialize the firmware * Scan and associate * Limited support of iw* tools * Infrastructure mode * Dynamically load the binary firmware image from /etc/firmware/ipw2100-1.0.fw * Fragmentation (Tx and Rx) What it doesn't do: * AdHoc mode * WEP * Restart the firmware after a 'fatal interrupt' received. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source Software: Free as in Free Speech, not Free Beer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Intel release Centrino wireless driver
For people who have an Intel PRO2100 wireless chipset, the driver from Intel is now available. http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/ I'll try this out tonight. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. - H.L. Mencken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Intel release Centrino wireless driver
quote who=Jan Schmidt For people who have an Intel PRO2100 wireless chipset, the driver from Intel is now available. http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/ I'll try this out tonight. P.S. It appears to still require a limited-license binary firmware, and doesn't have a lot of features finished yet, but it's a step upward from having to load the windows driver using ndiswrapper. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't Panic -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
