Centrino wireless chip support in Linux?

[Jack Jackson]

David Teague wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 20, 2005 7:07 PM
> Jack Jackson wrote
> Re: Centrino wireless chip support in Linux?
> 
> 
> 
>>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!
>>
>>;)
> 
> 
> Well,  perhaps I shall have equivalent fortune.
> 
> I suppose I could boot the Ubuntu Live CD to try
> out WiFi support in the store before buying, perhaps?
> 


That's exactly what I did. When I found the machine which I liked and it 
worked, I bought it on the spot.





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> 
> David
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