Thanks for pointing that out Deepak. I wonder what they do to keep
people from fiddling with the software programable frequencies these
radios allegedly have.
Austin
Deepak Saxena wrote:
> Centrino wireless support for Linux...
>
> ~Deepak
>
> ----- Forwarded message from James Ketrenos <jketreno@linux.co.intel.com> -----
>
> Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 14:24:06 -0600
> From: James Ketrenos <jketreno@linux.co.intel.com>
> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: [Announce] Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 802.11b driver
>
> I am pleased to announce the launch of an open source development project for
> the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 miniPCI network adapter. The project has been
> created and is hosted at http://ipw2100.sf.net.
>
> The driver, as it currently stands, is able to associate and communicate in
> Infrastructure mode. Support for both 2.4 and 2.6 is available. We are
> releasing this driver now as "early beta" code to get feedback and help
> in the development, so expect bugs (and please report them)! Of course
> Intel will continue the effort (as part of this Open Source project).
> We are planning to add support of all key wireless features (adhoc, WEP, etc)
> over the next few months, quicker with help from others in the community.
>
> NOTE: Let me reiterate -- this driver is in active development. Features and
> capabilities available on other operating systems have not all been
> implemented
> at this time. This includes wireless features (adhoc, wep) as well as
> performance and power savings.
>
> I look forward to working with the community to improve and enhance the
> driver.
> So if you have an Intel wireless 802.11b miniPCI network adapter in your
> laptop... download the bits, give it a whirl, and let me know how it goes.
> Please also let us know if you encounter any problems that may be related to
> specific distributions.
>
> Thanks,
> James Ketrenos
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