Hello, this month's TuxMobil News digest has again good news for Linux PDA, mobile phone and laptop users. Here is an extract of the monthly digest, but note there are much more noteworthy issues, so do not miss to check the whole digest[1]. |=| Linuxant has released a Linux driver for the Intel(TM) PRO/Wireless 2100 chipset[2]. So finally all three parts of the Centrino technology are supported. The driver also supports WLAN chipsets made by Atheros, Broadcom, Intersil and Realtek. TuxMobil has tested it on an ASUS M2400N laptop and it worked out-of-the-box[3]. Though unfortunately the driver is not Open Source. Intel has also announced a driver[4], but whether this will be released as Open Source or not is still unclear. Nevertheless Centrino(TM) laptops are already very popular in the Linux community. For almost all Centrino based laptops installation reports[5] are available. |=| Werner Schulte has published an OPIE development Live CD[6], which provides a complete toolchain to generate applications for Linux PDAs. Also two usefull documents came up. One explains Cross-Compiling For SHARP Zaurus[7] in general and the other how to cross compile Zaurus apps using Apple developer tools on Mac OS[8]. |=| As usual there are rumours about new Linux PDAs, this month about the SHARP SL-6000[9]. But they are not officially confirmed by the manufacturer itself yet. [1] http://tuxmobil.org/mobile_news_2003_10.html [2] http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/ [3] http://tuxmobil.org/asus_m2400n.html [4] http://www.intel.com/support/notebook/centrino/sb/cs-006059-prd955.htm [5] http://tuxmobil.org/centrino.html [6] http://www.handhelds.org/pub/linux/dists/opiedev/ [7] http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT6830035793.html [8] http://www.dsitri.de/php/projects/project.php?project=Zaurus%20X-gcc [9] http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/dal-24.10.03-000/ Werner You may find the daily TuxMobil News RSS/XML channel, the archiv and a news submission form at http://tuxmobil.org/newsfeed.html -- |=| Werner Heuser = Berliner Str. 122 = D-13187 Berlin = Germany |=| <wehe at tuxmobil.org> T. 0049 - (0)30 - 349 53 86 |=| http://TuxMobil.org UniX on Mobile Systems: HOWTOs,Software |*| This is no time for phony rhetoric -- Lou Reed