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To: Michael Bretterklieber <mbretter@jawa.at>
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Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 09:59:41 -0700
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
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Subject: Re: Intel Pro 2100 Wireless LAN 
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> Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 15:39:46 +0200 	(=?ISO-8859-15?Q?Westeurop=E4ische_Normalzeit?=)
> From: Michael Bretterklieber <mbretter@jawa.at>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
> 
> Hi,
> 
> is this wlan-card supported by FreeBSD (current)?
> Intel Pro 2100 Wireless LAN (802.11b) Mini-PCI-Card (Centrino)

I believe that the Intel 2100 uses the Broadcom wireless chip for
which Broadcom refuses to release any specs and have stated that no
drivers for Linux or other Open Source OSes will be available.

Some people on the Linux side are trying to reverse engineer it, but
that may not produce results for a while. Sorry!
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634