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Werner Heuser wrote:
>Intel(TM) has updated their Centrino(TM) Mobile Technology page[1] to mention
>that: "A Linux driver for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 wireless network
>connection is currently under development", albeit without an expected
>date of release. This seems to be a result of the "Intel Support of
>Centrino Under Linux Petition"[2], which has got almost 5,000
>subscriptions during a few weeks. Laptops based on the Centrino(TM)
>features are already very popular in the Linux community. For almost
>all Centrino based laptops there are installation reports[3]
>available.

If you probe the e-mail 'support' addresses given in the contact
information, you will find that the responses are automatically generated
marketing gibberish, rather than a response from a real human. It only
takes a few e-mails to reach this conclusion.

If this is not the case, then the entities that responded to my inquiries
at Intel do not live on this planet, giving 'outsourced support' an
entirely new meaning...


> [1] http://www.intel.com/support/noteboo...059-prd955.htm
> [2] http://www.petitiononline.com/xanthan/petition.html
> [3] http://tuxmobil.org/centrino.html