Re: [SLE] centrino support

From: Anders Karlsson (anders_at_trudheim.com)
Date: 10/07/03

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    To: David Blomber <dblomber@davelinux.com>
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 13:53:16 +0100

    On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 12:54, David Blomber wrote:
    > On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 18:11, Gerhard den Hollander wrote:
    > > Are there any suse kernels which do support centrino chipsets ?
    > >
    > > If so, where can I find them ;)
    > >
    > >
    > >
    > not until Intel decides to open up-

    That depends on what Gerhard actually is after. If he is after support
    for the Pentium-M processor, the advice is to compile for a P-III. If he
    is after the cpufreq things, then most -ac patches have that, and you
    can also get it from www.arm.linux.org.uk via CVS. The wireless part of
    Centrino you can more or less forget. Intel said in march they would
    open up the source for the drivers, and I have been e-mailing Scott
    McLaughlin at Intel about once or twice a month about it, and there is
    still the same evasive answers. They simply don't quite know how to do
    it I reckon.

    As for what SuSE kernels that support Centrino, I don't know. I got
    bored waiting for a SuSE kernel that would actually work on my X31
    Thinkpad so I have been rolling my own kernels since about SLPro 8.2
    came out. It was the only way to get things working and who cares about
    the splash animation anyway.

    I suppose that the latest 2.4.21 SuSE kernel (is that the -104 ?) should
    at least work with IDE DMA, and if you are lucky, it has the cpufreq
    stuff as well.

    Regards, 

    -- 
Anders Karlsson <anders@trudheim.com>
Trudheim Technology Limited

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