Intel Releases Linux Driver For Centrino WLAN

Werner Heuser writes "Finally Intel has made their different announcements about Linux support for the WLAN part of the Centrino technology become true. Though not yet officially announced an Open-Source driver with included firmware is available at SourceForge. The driver is still experimental and supposed to work with 2.4 Kernels as well as with 2.6 ones." (See these previous stories for some background.)

SCO

[Youssef Adnan]

Here goes my karma: Are you sure this code doesn't belong to SCO? I mean, we all know that all open source projects belong to them but we're hiding it. :)

Hooray!

[mrseigen]

Maybe now I'll reconsider buying that Thinkpad over a Powerbook for a split second.

Re:I don't get it

[Halthar]

Maybe they are truly in touch with open source projects everywhere, and when it comes to documentation simply said "screw it, someone else will write it!"

Re:Hardly Intel...

[Otter]

That's like saying ACPI for linux isn't an intel contribution because it's a sourceforge project.

Oh, is that why I can't get my Athlon to power off with any kernel after 2.4.20?

Re:From ipw2100_main.c

[Anonymous Coward]

Whatever happened to meaningful variables (which is taught at age 12 before you even touch a language)

Re:From ipw2100_main.c

[Anonymous Coward]

Duh!
This is high performance code! Single-letter variable names execute more faster.
U R teh st00p3d.

Re:Open Source Driver + Firmware

[Anonymous Coward]

It's FREE SOFTWARE, not open source software!

And this isn't even this so-called 'open-source' software: it's oppressive closed-source software which would taint my GNU/Linux kernel (note that there is no driver for GNU/Hurd).

Well, I'm not going to use this software.
Also I have no centrino laptop.

Open Source??

[Stiletto]

If it's like many "open source with firmware" drivers, it's probably a lot like this:


unsigned char firmware[] = { 0x22, 0x45, ...[many thousands of bytes].... };

void driver(void)
{
run_firmware(firmware);
}


Uh, yea, I'd consider that open source all right...

Re:Open source?

[cocotoni]

Pray tell, on which non-x86 arch are you going to use Intel Centrino drivers for the INTEL Centrino processor on the INTEL board?

Re:From ipw2100_main.c

[HermanZA]

My favourite is things like this:

#define TWENTY 19

That is much worse than single character names.

Re:NDISWRAPPER

[Inuchance]

You're both right! You should continue to use NDISWRAPPER, while complaining about it every chance you get.