FreeBSD and Centrino

[Tony Saign]

All the Centrino systems I've seen use a miniPCI card.
Pretty good marketing on Intel's part, since everyone is under the
impression it's built into the system board!

-Tony

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Oberman
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 12:16 PM
To: Cliff L. Biffle
Cc: freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Centrino 


> 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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