Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Aug 2003 16:46:19 -0400 | From | Brandon Stewart <> | Subject | Re: Centrino support |
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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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