On 26/01/15 01:02 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 11:53:06PM -0500, Blaise Alleyne wrote: >> The other tricky this is wireless, and going with Intel isn't enough... I >> have >> Intel wireless adapters for my ThinkPad X60 and T61, both of which do *not* >> work >> with free software and require proprietary drivers in GNU/Linux. I thought I >> was >> okay because the wireless cards were "intel" when making the purchase, but I >> was >> wrong about the particular type of Intel wireless adapter. > > No the intel wifi requires non-free firmware, but the drivers are fine. > If you go back far enough to the old 2200, then it was a problem, but > anything recent is fine. >
Oh, yeah, the proprietary drivers work fine, but that's only if you're willing to run proprietary drivers. I'd really rather not, hence the ThinkPenguin adapter, and hence wishing I hadn't just trusted "intel" when buying the thing... --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
