Re: Centrino and FreeBSD

"Kevin Oberman" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 17:56:35 +0100
> From: Ducrot Bruno <[email protected]>
> Sender: [email protected]
> 
> On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 05:31:58PM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> > In message: <[email protected]>
> >             James Mabry <[email protected]> writes:
> > : I am going to start shopping around for a new notebook and was wondering 
> > : if centrino will be supported in FreeBSD? Thanks.
> > 
> > Only if somebody sends me a centrino laptop :-)
> > 
> > Unless intel's much hailed technology is just a cheap rebranding of
> > prism cards, I doubt it.
> 
> IMO if those laptops are shipped with P-M with new speedstep technology
> (MSR based instead of IO horror) then it would be interresting
> to look at.

They do use Pentium-M with the new speedstep capability.

Also, the wireless is an claimed to be an Intel PRO/Wireless mini-PCI
card which is the same one used in my T30. It's a Prism 2.5.

I'll be curious about the support of the Pentium-M. I suspect the
wireless will just work.

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: [email protected]			Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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