[Techtalk] Native Centrino Wireless Network Card Driver?

[robin mcadams]

(Jan 13) thus spake Cindy Wong:
> I remember reading about the lack of a linux driver for the built-in 
> wifi card on my Centrino laptop a couple of months ago.  Does anyone 
> knows the current state of the matter?  I know I can use the Windows 
> driver with NDIS Wrapper, but how about a native one?  Either binary or 
> source would be nice.

WLAN support under Linux is a bit spotty; neither Intel nor Broadcom WLAN
chipsets are currently supported, though Intel says a Linux driver for the
PRO/Wireless 2100 (that's the one that comes bundled with the Centrino
laptops, I think) is under development. AFAIK, the best way to get it
working reliably is to just use the driver wrapper.

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