FreeBSD and Centrino

Cliff L. Biffle cbiffle at safety.net
Fri May 9 11:24:34 PDT 2003


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.

-Cliff L. Biffle


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