Hello, this month's TuxMobil News digest[1] has again good news for Linux PDA, mobile phone and laptop users. I have put an extract of the most important messages at the top of this letter. Werner Heuser <wehe_at_tuxmobil.org> |=| SHARP continues their Linux PDA series. Their new Zaurus SL-C860 ships November 27th for the Japanese market[2]. The SL-6000 was announced for early in 2004[3]. OPIE 1.0.3[4] and OpenZaurus 3.3.5[5] were released. See also the first issue of the OpenZaurus Newsletter[6]. Finally FreshMeat has become aware of the changes in the PDA market and renamed the "Palm" Section To "Handhelds"[7]. |=| Some vendors refuse to release specs or even a binary Linux driver for their WLAN cards. ndiswrapper[8] by Pontus Fuchs tries to solve this by making a kernel module that can load Microsoft-Windows NDIS drivers. Currently only BroadCom chips are supported. In the meanwhile Linuxant has made a commercial end-user license[9] available for DriverLoader. This driver uses a similar approach, but supports some more chipsets, including the WLAN chip comming with Intel's Centrino[tm] technology[10]. Werner [1] http://tuxmobil.org/mobile_news_2003_11.html [2] http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS3852086383.html [3] http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6804055064.html [4] http://opie.handhelds.org/ [5] http://openzaurus.org/ [6] http://openzaurus.org/newsletters/2003.12/ [7] http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/1030/ [8] http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/ [9] http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/ [10] http://tuxmobil.org/centrino.html 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