From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 15 10:13:52 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FCD116A4BF for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:13:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from natsmtp01.rzone.de (natsmtp01.rzone.de [81.169.145.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCD1043F75 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:13:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from me@benedikt-stockebrand.de) Received: from benedikt-stockebrand.de (p5089344A.dip.t-dialin.net [80.137.52.74]) by post.webmailer.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id h9FHDnfH011500 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 19:13:49 +0200 (MEST) Received: from anvil.devnull.benedikt-stockebrand.de ([192.168.47.13]) by benedikt-stockebrand.de with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 1A9pDY-00007D-00 for mobile@freebsd.org; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 19:13:48 +0200 To: mobile@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <200310150845.50384.gmarco@giovannelli.it> From: Benedikt Stockebrand Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 19:13:53 +0200 In-Reply-To: <200310150845.50384.gmarco@giovannelli.it> (Gianmarco's message of "Wed, 15 Oct 2003 08:45:50 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Reasonable Discussion, berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Siemens-Fujitsu LB 6120 and Intel PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 17:13:52 -0000 Hi Gianmarco, Gianmarco writes: > 1) It is full of stickers "Designed for Windows XP" and "Centrino", which I > really was unable to remove. I really don't know which kind of fucking glue > they have used ... any suggestions is welcome :-) Put FreeBSD stickers on top:-) I got those off my Toshiba without much trouble and only a little bit of methylated spirit to get rid of the remaining glue. > 2) The serious problem :-) seems to be the internal wifi card which seems to > me be a Intel PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 accordingly to the docs. Unless things have changed recently, the network card in all Centrino systems is not supported by any free OS. Allegedly it is basically a fully software controllable radio transmitter/receiver so all national radio regulations have to be implemented in the driver. Since Intel doesn't want to get in trouble selling illegal products they don't publish the specs and generally have a problem with open source drivers (which would provide the basis for some reverse engineering that might lead to legal problems). So don't hold your breath waiting for a functional driver. Instead, get a supported WLAN card if you need to. Cheers, Ben -- Dipl. Inform. Tel.: +49 (0) 6151 - 971 823 Benedikt Stockebrand Mobil: +49 (0) 177 - 41 73 985 Am Karlshof 1a Mail: me@benedikt-stockebrand.de D-64287 Darmstadt WWW: http://www.benedikt-stockebrand.de