[ltp] Intel 2100b WiFi Card

[steve@rhythm.cx]

Not as far as I can tell, I've looked far and wide. This has led me to avoid
centrino on my quest for a new laptop, or at least make sure it comes with a
wireless card I can use. Check out this page for more info on linux centrino
support: http://tuxmobil.org/centrino.html

On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 02:38:24AM -0500, Dan Borello wrote:
> Has there been any change in the status of this card under linux?  I
> know that Intel reported that they would have full centrino support for
> linux.
> 
> I have a T40 and would LOVE to get linux running on it.  I have read a
> few pages about getting Debian installed, they all mention the lack of
> support for the IBM Wifi card, but fail to mention the Intel 802.11b
> card.  
> 
> Just for fun I loaded up Slackware 9.0 onto the T40 (and created
> partitions without clobbering the restore partition).  It installed
> great!  Alot of things appeared to work right away (sound, video, NIC). 
> lspci found the intel WLAN card, but no driver was loaded for it.  I
> wanted to test to see if my recovery partition was still alive and
> clobbered the slack install, nothing lost.  
> 
> Any insight is appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> db
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> Dan Borello <dan@borellos.com>
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