Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 12:16:17 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: "Cliff L. Biffle" <cbiffle@safety.net> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Centrino Message-ID: <20030509191617.ECC4E5D04@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Message from "Cliff L. Biffle" <cbiffle@safety.net> <200305091124.44740.cbiffle@safety.net>
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> From: "Cliff L. Biffle" <cbiffle@safety.net> > Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 11:24:44 -0700 > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@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@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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