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Linux gets 802.11g Intel Centrino driver (ZDNet)
ZDNet UK
looks at a pre-beta version of Intel's Linux-based 802.11g driver for
its Centrino platform. ""The pre-beta drivers are intended to
provide the Linux open-source developer community an opportunity to
evaluate the drivers in their own environment, and provide Intel with
feedback," said [an Intel] spokesman." (Thanks to James
Pearson-Kirk)
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Linux gets 802.11g Intel Centrino driver (ZDNet) Posted Jun 3, 2004 22:07 UTC (Thu) by brouhaha (subscriber, #1698) [Link] And the article doesn't even mention the best part, which is that they are under a GPL license. Sadly a non-trivial chunk of the Atheros 11g driver is available in binary form only, due to stupid FCC regulations on Software Defined Radios.
Linux gets 802.11g Intel Centrino driver (ZDNet) Posted Jun 5, 2004 8:28 UTC (Sat) by jmayer (subscriber, #595) [Link] Yes and no: Of course the current driver is 100% GPL - it does nothingmore than detect the card. It doesn't even load the firmware. And exactly this firmware is the thing that inspires the "no": The firmware will do most stuff on the card and it definitely is proprietary.
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