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Re: [opensuse-factory] NetworkManager?
- From: David Wright <david.wright@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 10:40:26 +0100
- Message-id: <200603071040.26653.david.wright@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Am Dienstag, 7. März 2006 09:37 schrieb Stephan Kulow:
> Am Dienstag, 7. März 2006 08:06 schrieb Frank-Michael Fischer:
> > Hi, as the NetworkManager package is not capable of supporting my
> > prism54 card (bug 148210), does someone now whether there are plans for
> > supporting ndiswrapper through NetworkManager? If not, the market for
> > 10.1 will shrink substantially, as at least most notebooks come with
> > wlan cards requiring ndiswrapper for proper function.
>
> Most notebooks came with centrino cards last time I checked MediaMarkt. Do
> you have market data you want to share with us?
>
> Greetings, Stephan
>
Centrino is an Intel product, so any laptops not using a Pentium M/Core
Solo/Core Duo processor (E.g. AMD Turion) won't have a Centrino chipset. Also
some Intel laptops don't use Centrino, so they would probably have a 3rd
party chipset.
And there are still many older laptops out there that are pre-Centrino or
don't have built in wireless and use PC Cards for wireless access, and Intel
don't sell a PC Card with the wireless chipset from the Centrino collection.
I guess it is a case of buying a laptop with a chipset that is supported by
Linux if you want to use it with Linux - same as graphics chips, I'll never
buy another ATi based laptop for example!
Although I must say in SUSE 10.0 (and it is Centrino) is a lot easier to
configure and a lot more reliable on the wireless connection front than
Windows, SUSE boots up and connects to my WPA-PSK access point, whilst under
Windows it sometimes finds, sometimes not, and if you search for it and try
and connect, Windows deletes the WPA-PSK configuration information and asks
for a WEP passphrase :-(
Dave
--
"I got to go figure," the tenant said. "We all got to figure. There's some way
to stop this. It's not like lightning or earthquakes. We've got a bad thing
made by men, and by God that's something we can change."
- The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
> Am Dienstag, 7. März 2006 08:06 schrieb Frank-Michael Fischer:
> > Hi, as the NetworkManager package is not capable of supporting my
> > prism54 card (bug 148210), does someone now whether there are plans for
> > supporting ndiswrapper through NetworkManager? If not, the market for
> > 10.1 will shrink substantially, as at least most notebooks come with
> > wlan cards requiring ndiswrapper for proper function.
>
> Most notebooks came with centrino cards last time I checked MediaMarkt. Do
> you have market data you want to share with us?
>
> Greetings, Stephan
>
Centrino is an Intel product, so any laptops not using a Pentium M/Core
Solo/Core Duo processor (E.g. AMD Turion) won't have a Centrino chipset. Also
some Intel laptops don't use Centrino, so they would probably have a 3rd
party chipset.
And there are still many older laptops out there that are pre-Centrino or
don't have built in wireless and use PC Cards for wireless access, and Intel
don't sell a PC Card with the wireless chipset from the Centrino collection.
I guess it is a case of buying a laptop with a chipset that is supported by
Linux if you want to use it with Linux - same as graphics chips, I'll never
buy another ATi based laptop for example!
Although I must say in SUSE 10.0 (and it is Centrino) is a lot easier to
configure and a lot more reliable on the wireless connection front than
Windows, SUSE boots up and connects to my WPA-PSK access point, whilst under
Windows it sometimes finds, sometimes not, and if you search for it and try
and connect, Windows deletes the WPA-PSK configuration information and asks
for a WEP passphrase :-(
Dave
--
"I got to go figure," the tenant said. "We all got to figure. There's some way
to stop this. It's not like lightning or earthquakes. We've got a bad thing
made by men, and by God that's something we can change."
- The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
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