Berhane Temelso writes:
> Fedora Core 2 supposedly doesn't detect the built-in Intel wireless cards
> in Centrino laptops and one would need to go through some hustle to get
> WiFi working. Does anyone know if that problem has been fixed in Fedora
> Core 3?

I don't think that will happen. There is some hack for using the
Intel cards under Linux by wrapping some binary driver, but there's no
free driver since the Intel card uses a secret interface. I have FC3
on a Thinkpad X40 and am using a PCMCIA wifi card (Prism chip) because
of this.

In message <7x1xbfksy2.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com>, Paul Rubin
writes
>Berhane Temelso writes:
>> Fedora Core 2 supposedly doesn't detect the built-in Intel wireless cards
>> in Centrino laptops and one would need to go through some hustle to get
>> WiFi working. Does anyone know if that problem has been fixed in Fedora
>> Core 3?
>
>I don't think that will happen. There is some hack for using the
>Intel cards under Linux by wrapping some binary driver, but there's no
>free driver since the Intel card uses a secret interface. I have FC3
>on a Thinkpad X40 and am using a PCMCIA wifi card (Prism chip) because
>of this.
>
Are you sure. What about ?
--
Martin Liddle, Tynemouth Computer Services, 27 Garforth Close,
Cramlington, Northumberland, England, NE23 6EW.
Web site: .

Martin Liddle writes:
> Are you sure. What about ?

That is the binary wrapper thingie, I think.

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 09:51:14 -0800, Paul Rubin wrote:

> Martin Liddle writes:
>> Are you sure. What about ?
>
> That is the binary wrapper thingie, I think.

Looks like a real driver to me. The wifi wrapper is Ndiswrapper which
allows you to use a Windows driver.

In message <7xpsyz6pnx.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com>, Paul Rubin
writes
>Martin Liddle writes:
>> Are you sure. What about ?
>
>That is the binary wrapper thingie, I think.

The project describes itself as "an open source 802.11b driver for the
ipw2100".
--
Martin Liddle, Tynemouth Computer Services, 27 Garforth Close,
Cramlington, Northumberland, England, NE23 6EW.
Web site: .

Martin Liddle writes:
> >That is the binary wrapper thingie, I think.
>
> The project describes itself as "an open source 802.11b driver for the
> ipw2100".

I see now, it downloads a binary firmware module into the card. Also,
it says the card itself has no hardware docs, so it's done by reverse
engineering. Using a pcmcia card is a nuisance, but if I want to use
an internal card, I think I'll try to find an Orinoco mini-PCI card
that's documented and doesn't need any binary downloads or reverse
engineered drivers.

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:29:56 -0500, General Schvantzkoph
wrote:

>On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 09:51:14 -0800, Paul Rubin wrote:
>
>> Martin Liddle writes:
>>> Are you sure. What about ?
>>
>> That is the binary wrapper thingie, I think.
>
>Looks like a real driver to me. The wifi wrapper is Ndiswrapper which
>allows you to use a Windows driver.

The General is correct. The IPW driver is (mostly) open source - and
written primarily (so far) by Intel folks. Ndiswrapper is a Linux
wrapper for the XP driver.

Either one works fine in my somewhat limited experience with my
IBM R40 Centrino running FC2.

Bill
--
William D Waddington
william.waddington@beezmo.com
"Even bugs...are unexpected signposts on
the long road of creativity..." - Ken Burtch

I went with SuSE 9.2 Pro and I love it!!! The graphical interface is
simply phenomenal and YaST makes installation and configuration so
easy. From my brief experience with SUSE, I would definately recommend it
over RedHat 9.0 or Fedora 2/3.

I did a network install and eveything went well except that SuSE didn't detect my graphics card and
monitor properties right. After a little scare and disappointment, I did
a reinstall and specified the right graphics card and monitor settings and
everything seems to be working fine. Now, I am moving on to the
infamous process of getting my wireless card to work.

Thanks everyone for the input,
BT
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On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Berhane wrote:

> I have always been a Redhat/Fedora guy, but that was all when I had
> desktops with P3/P4 processors. I finally invested in an HP Pavillion
> 3340 laptop with 1.5GHz Centrino and I am now pondering which Linux
> distribution to install.
>
> Fedora Core 2 supposedly doesn't detect the built-in Intel wireless cards
> in Centrino laptops and one would need to go through some hustle to get
> WiFi working. Does anyone know if that problem has been fixed in Fedora
> Core 3?
>
> I am thinking of SUSE because of its reputation and since HP has started
> selling its Centrino laptops with Novell/SUSE.
>
> Any recommendations?
>
>
>
>

Paul Rubin wrote:
> Martin Liddle writes:
>>>That is the binary wrapper thingie, I think.
>>The project describes itself as "an open source 802.11b driver for the
>>ipw2100".
>
> I see now, it downloads a binary firmware module into the card. Also,
> it says the card itself has no hardware docs, so it's done by reverse
> engineering. Using a pcmcia card is a nuisance, but if I want to use
> an internal card, I think I'll try to find an Orinoco mini-PCI card
> that's documented and doesn't need any binary downloads or reverse
> engineered drivers.

I can understand you being defensive, since you were wrong in your
assumptions... but really.. pretty much ALL of Linux drivers are due
to the deligence of people reverse engineering to some extent.

The w2200bg drivers work just fine. Using the cards firmware
is NOT a hack solution irrespective
of OS. And they will be installed out of the box with SUSE (though
my WEP key wan't accepted at install time, but invoking YaST after
install allowed me to install my WEP key). I haven't tried WPA yet...
supposedly the latest version of the driver has some support for that.

WEP works fine though.