On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 09:12 -0700, Kai Ponte wrote:

On Tue, August 14, 2007 6:41 am, LLLActive@GMX.Net wrote:

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Hi all,

Does the "Intel Next-gen Wireless-n 802.11a/b/g/n Mini Card" in the new Notebooks from e.g. Asus & Dell's Inspiron 1720 / 1721 work with OpenSUSE 10.2?

Dunno.

http://support.intel.com/support/notebook/sb/CS-006408.htm

Check there.

-- k

Thanx Kai, Pardon, I meant OpenSUSE 10.2. (Changed the Subject too) I can't judge if this card works or not (I'm not that knowledgeable on this technology). I am about to order some notebooks for the company. They have to be able to run Linux. They can be ordered with either Intel Pro Wireless 3945 802.11a/b/g-Minicard or the Intel Wireless-N-Minicard Next Gen. The new N-Minicard would be nice, if it works. But it seems that something is in the coming. I googled some more and found this: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Linux.Wireless.drivers.... ################################################################################ 4.10 Intel PRO/Wireless 4965AGN draft-802.11n (Centrino) Driver status : Experimental Driver name : iwl4965.o Version : 0.1.3 Where : http://intellinuxwireless.org/?p=iwlwifi http://intellinuxwireless.org/?p=mac80211 Maintainer : James P. Ketrenos <ipw2100-admin@linux.intel.com> Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com> Mailing list : https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ipw3945-devel Documentation : Readme Configuration : Wireless Extensions Statistics : Wireless Extensions Modes : Managed, Ad-Hoc Security : WEP, 802.1x, WPA Scanning : Wireless Extensions Monitor : Yes Multi-devices : ? Interoperability : 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11a depending on hardware Other features : Firmware loading via HotPlug, 802.11e (QoS) Non implemented : - Bugs : ? License : GPL Vendor web page : http://www.intel.com/ 4.10.1 The device The Intel PRO/Wireless 4965 is the fourth 802.11 product designed by Intel, following the previous PRO/Wireless 3945 product (section 4.8). It mostly adds support for draft-802.11n support, i.e. MIMO. MIMO uses multiple antennas to simultaneously transmit or receive signal, and using some clever processing can achieve much greater range or speed than regular transmissions. The 802.11n standard is not yet finalised, which is why those products are called draft-802.11n compliant. It offer bitrate up to 300 Mb/s (most users won't see that in practice), and may double the range indoors. Like their previous chipset, the 4965 is only available as a MiniPCI card for Intel Centrino processor, integrated in various laptops, and not available as a separate add-on card. 4.10.2 The driver For the 4965, Intel decided to directly based their driver on the new mac80211 kernel stack (see section 4.9). This driver is part of the iwlwifi package, and currently requires a version of mac80211 with Intel changes to support draft-802.11n. This driver also require a specific firmware the ensure regulation compliance. ########################################################################### I've taken the liberty of sending a cc to the two names that seem to maintain this project (hope they don't take offence). I joined the mailing list and posed my question there as well. I will post the answer here as well. :-) Al -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org