Re: [SLE] Thinkpad T42 SuSE 9.1: centrino wireless not working.

Quoting John Andersen :

On Tuesday 24 August 2004 06:37 pm, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:

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Quoting David Kramer : [snip]

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Anyone have any suggestions where I can turn next?

Join the ipw2100/ipw2200 mailing list. The 2200 driver is definitely alpha quality. The 2100 driver is approaching beta quality.

Jeffrey

It sucks waiting for drivers, buy maybe David can grab a cheap 802.11b pcmcia card in the meantime.

The wireless field is changing so fast that it makes little sense to have wireless built in. I refuse to buy any laptop with built in wireless unless it is dirt cheap, and has an mechanical shut-off switch.

802.16 is just around the corner, and all the centrino stuff is going to be deadwood then.

People are using the 2100 driver for production work, just lots of firmware reloads (though I made it thru 4 hours airtime yesterday with no reload/restarts, version 0.53). The 2200 0.4 driver is now usable (earlier version just loaded the firmware and powered up the card). If you are not in a life critical situation, use it and help the development effort. The 2100 & 2200 are mini-pci cards. Not as easy to change as a PCMCIA, but not built in. And the current PCMCIA cards will just as much be deadwood. Internal wireless cards are nice, nothing to snap off. The built-in antenna may become obsolete during the lifetime of my laptop (I just retired my 486 desktop, by donating it to group at a university building a 486 cluster). Jeffrey