Re: Centrino support

[Brandon Stewart]

I thought that this line of argument was due to FCC regulations. That 
is, software settings would allow the hardware to violate frequency or 
strength-of-signal limitations set by government regulations. This is 
only from memory, so feel free to correct.

-Brandon

Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:

> On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 11:13, Jan Rychter wrote:
>  
>
> > Well, that was almost 5 months ago. So I figured I'd ask if there's any
> > progress -- so far the built-in wireless in my notebook still doesn't
> > work with Linux and the machine is monstrously power-hungry because
> > Linux doesn't scale the CPU frequency.
> >    
>
> Intel shows no inclination to release Centrino wireless drivers for
> Linux.  There have been vague insinuations that this is due to excessive
> software controllability, but no public explanations have been given,
> beyond "we're not doing it at this moment".
>
> If you want built-in wireless in the nearish term, you'll have to get a
> supported MiniPCI card and replace your Centrino card.
>
> As far as CPU is concerned, if you're using recent 2.5 or 2.6 kernels,
> there's Pentium M support in cpufreq.  Jeremy Fitzhardinge has written a
> userspace daemon that varies the Pentium M CPU frequency in response to
> load.

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