Fwd: Centrino support

[William Park]

On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 09:41:31PM -0400, Jamon Camisso wrote:
> Colin McGregor wrote:
> >The following question was passed on to me by the
> >editor of a magazine I have written for. Anyone know
> >how to make wireless play nice on Linux based Centrino
> >laptops?
> >
> >One person (with the luck? / misfortune? to live) in
> >New Jersry would appreciate an answer.
> >
> 
> http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php
> 
> untar the firmware in /lib/firmware, maybe reboot. I've used all those 
> distros with my Centrino laptop over the past few years, most distros 
> have worked without any intervention on my part iirc. I didn't install 
> it manually on my Fedora desktop box, but it's sitting there in 
> /lib/modules, ergo...
> 
> The ipw2200 driver is part of the kernel, it's totally free. The 
> firmware is the only part that may require a user to intervene.

A very important point!  I spent weeks, before I realized I had to
DOWNLOAD firmware.  Why can't they include them in the driver?

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