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