Re: Intel extreme graphics - does it work?

From: Satish Balay (balay_at_fastmail.fm)
Date: 05/05/04

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    Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 10:16:08 -0500 (CDT)
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    On Wed, 5 May 2004, Tim Kossack wrote:

    > Am Mi, den 05.05.2004 schrieb Jeremy Brown um 16:41:
    > > Tim Kossack wrote:
    > >
    > > >also, afaik if it's a centrino, wlan is hard to get to run?
    > >
    > > Don't know much about your graphics chipset, but I can attest that
    > > getting Linux and Centrino to cooperate is not fun at all. I've been
    > > able to get it to work on my laptop part of the time using ndiswrapper
    > > (http://ndiswrapper.sf.net), but with some stability issues. I
    > > eventually got tired of having to restart my laptop every few hours, and
    > > just shoved in a PCMCIA wlan card instead.
    > >
    > > It's really unfortunate, since so many new laptops ship with Centrino by
    > > default.
    >
    > have you tried the preview of the new intel driver?
    >
    > http://support.intel.com/support/network/wireless/sb/CS-006408-prd448.htm

    There is a prebuilt version of this driver for FC1 kernels. checkout:
    https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1494

    Satish

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