[ale] [Announce] Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 802.11b driver (fwd)

[Jim Popovitch]

Oh Great.  Yet another centrino wireless driver for Linux.  I just wish
one of them would not constantly lock up.  Sigh.

-Jim P.  (soon to be disappointed again...)


On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 16:13, Chris Ricker wrote:
> this may be of interest....
> 
> later,
> chris
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 14:24:06 -0600
> From: James Ketrenos <jketreno at linux.co.intel.com>
> To: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
> Subject: [Announce] Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 802.11b driver
> 
> I am pleased to announce the launch of an open source development project for
> the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 miniPCI network adapter. The project has been
> created and is hosted at http://ipw2100.sf.net.
> 
> The driver, as it currently stands, is able to associate and communicate in
> Infrastructure mode. Support for both 2.4 and 2.6 is available. We are
> releasing this driver now as "early beta" code to get feedback and help
> in the development, so expect bugs (and please report them)!  Of course
> Intel will continue the effort (as part of this Open Source project).
> We are planning to add support of all key wireless features (adhoc, WEP, etc)
> over the next few months, quicker with help from others in the community.
> 
> NOTE: Let me reiterate -- this driver is in active development. Features and
> capabilities available on other operating systems have not all been implemented
> at this time. This includes wireless features (adhoc, wep) as well as
> performance and power savings.
> 
> I look forward to working with the community to improve and enhance the driver.
> So if you have an Intel wireless 802.11b miniPCI network adapter in your
> laptop... download the bits, give it a whirl, and let me know how it goes.
> Please also let us know if you encounter any problems that may be related to
> specific distributions.
> 
> Thanks,
> James Ketrenos
> 
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