Free software drivers for the Intel 965GM Express Chipset

Free software drivers for the Intel 965GM Express Chipset

Posted May 11, 2007 18:09 UTC (Fri) by bfields (subscriber, #19510)
In reply to: Free software drivers for the Intel 965GM Express Chipset by elanthis
Parent article: Free software drivers for the Intel 965GM Express Chipset

Yeah, free software to run on the actual wireless card itself would be way cool, but having at least fully free (and, hopefully soon, mainline) kernel drivers is a big step in the right direction.

So however silly the centrino branding may otherwise be, for new laptops it looks like it will provide some reasonable assurance that the things I care about will Just Work on any sufficiently recent free linux distribution.

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