[OT] RE: Anythnig to watch out for on a laptop?

[duncan brown]

i kind of misspoke, but that's what i meant.  the native intel wifi drivers are on the way, but it may take quite a while.

> > i read somewhere recently that intel is going to start 
> > releasing the centrino drivers for linux, not open source, 
> > but closed like nvidia and ati.
> 
> Now this is entirely off. Centrino AFAIK, is the combo
> of CPU (1MB cache) + Intel Wifi (right?)
> 
> The only thing which isn't working is the Wifi. Until late 
> last year when ndiswrapper started to support it. I'm using it 
> and I think it works better than the intel one. (Though I've not
> tried it.) I hear that the intel one does not support WEP and
> ndiswrapper Does. (again, I've not tried it. I have no APs that has
> WEP turned on)


Time will end all my troubles, but I don't always approve of Time's methods.

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