Re: FreeBSD and Centrino
"Kevin Oberman" <[email protected]>
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> From: "Cliff L. Biffle" <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 11:24:44 -0700 > Sender: [email protected] > > On Friday 09 May 2003 07:21 am, Vince Vielhaber wrote: > > On Fri, 9 May 2003, Duncan Barclay wrote: > > > Just bought a Centrino based laptop. Has anyone had ay further luck with > > > them, someone in April claimed 4.8 would not boot on a Sony Z1MP. > > > > > > Also anyone working on a driver for the 802.11b included? If not I'll try > > > and get the docs and roll my sleeves up. > > > > I've seen quite a few people mention that the 802.11b card inside their > > laptop isn't supported. Usually those things are just mini-pci cards. > > Has anyone given any thought (or tried) to putting in an orinoco or prism > > based mini-pci card in it's place? > > 'Course, this wouldn't work for the Centrino, which uses its own, integrated > wlan chip. ??? The only two Centrinos I've looked at use a mini-PCI Intel/PRO wireless card. At least one vendor offers a Cisco card as an alternative (which makes it non-Centrino.) 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 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"