Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270858AbTHOUoe (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Aug 2003 16:44:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270859AbTHOUoe (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Aug 2003 16:44:34 -0400 Received: from smtp102.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([216.136.174.140]:40591 "HELO smtp102.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S270858AbTHOUoc (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Aug 2003 16:44:32 -0400 Message-ID: <3F3D469B.2020507@yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 16:46:19 -0400 From: Brandon Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Bryan O'Sullivan" CC: Jan Rychter , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Centrino support References: <1060972810.29086.8.camel@serpentine.internal.keyresearch.com> In-Reply-To: <1060972810.29086.8.camel@serpentine.internal.keyresearch.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1482 Lines: 38 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. > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/