Gregory Leblanc said: > On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 16:07, Matt Wilson wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 11:05:00AM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: >> > On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 11:00:07AM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: >> > > - wireless will *not* work >> > >> > Hopefully, we can get Intel to do something about this. Is there any >> way Red Hat people can talk to inside-Intel people about it? >> >> Of course. We work very closely with Intel to ensure that we're supporting new hardware as it comes out. But we're going to put efforts in making sure that the fundamental stuff works first (IDE, video) before spending more resources on some of the extras (like wireless). > > Wireless seems to be a pretty integral part of Centrino. Certainly anybody who is buying it (based on Intel's marketing) will be buying it with the expectation of wireless working. Not suggesting that it won't be working as quickly as possible, just that calling wireless on Centrino an "extra" is probably not entirely valid. > Greg
>From the products available, I would call wireless an extra. To quote Cnet's review of Pentium 4M notebooks: "We put seven of the first Pentium M notebooks to the test at CNET Labs. Three were preconfigured as true-blue Centrinos: the Toshiba Tecra M1, the Acer TravelMate 803LCi, and the Gateway 450. Three of the others leave you the option of making your notebook a Centrino when you buy, depending on which wireless solution you choose. And one notebook, the Compaq Evo N620c, uses only a Phillips Agere wireless adapter, so it's not a Centrino at all (even though it has a Pentium M and the 855 chipset). " Now Intel might be trying to make "Centrino" go with "wireless" I would say that some vendors aren't biting. -- William Hooper -- William Hooper -- Phoebe-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list
