FreeBSD and Centrino

Kevin Oberman oberman at es.net
Fri May 9 12:16:21 PDT 2003


> From: "Cliff L. Biffle" <cbiffle at safety.net>
> Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 11:24:44 -0700
> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org
> 
> 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: oberman at es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634


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