Centrino wireless chip support in Linux?

[Jack Jackson]

David Teague wrote:
>  I read this in
> http://hardware.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/07/14/1721248&from=rss
> 
> "Because Centrino-based computers have wireless network chips that don't
> work with Linux, there is a project to create open source drivers for
> earlier Centrino wireless chips, but the newer ones don't seem to be
> supported."
> 
> I seem to recall that there are Intel supported Linux drivers
> for the Centrino wireless chips. Is this true? Or is this author
> right, the "new ones" aren't supported?
> 
> 


I write from a three-month old Centrino-based Compaq 4020 US with an 
Intel ipw2200 wireless chip, and here it is working on ubuntu!

;)


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