Am Dienstag, 7. März 2006 09:37 schrieb Stephan Kulow: > Am Dienstag, 7. März 2006 08:06 schrieb Frank-Michael Fischer: > > Hi, as the NetworkManager package is not capable of supporting my > > prism54 card (bug 148210), does someone now whether there are plans for > > supporting ndiswrapper through NetworkManager? If not, the market for > > 10.1 will shrink substantially, as at least most notebooks come with > > wlan cards requiring ndiswrapper for proper function. > > Most notebooks came with centrino cards last time I checked MediaMarkt. Do > you have market data you want to share with us? > > Greetings, Stephan >
Centrino is an Intel product, so any laptops not using a Pentium M/Core Solo/Core Duo processor (E.g. AMD Turion) won't have a Centrino chipset. Also some Intel laptops don't use Centrino, so they would probably have a 3rd party chipset. And there are still many older laptops out there that are pre-Centrino or don't have built in wireless and use PC Cards for wireless access, and Intel don't sell a PC Card with the wireless chipset from the Centrino collection. I guess it is a case of buying a laptop with a chipset that is supported by Linux if you want to use it with Linux - same as graphics chips, I'll never buy another ATi based laptop for example! Although I must say in SUSE 10.0 (and it is Centrino) is a lot easier to configure and a lot more reliable on the wireless connection front than Windows, SUSE boots up and connects to my WPA-PSK access point, whilst under Windows it sometimes finds, sometimes not, and if you search for it and try and connect, Windows deletes the WPA-PSK configuration information and asks for a WEP passphrase :-( Dave -- "I got to go figure," the tenant said. "We all got to figure. There's some way to stop this. It's not like lightning or earthquakes. We've got a bad thing made by men, and by God that's something we can change." - The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
