Re: [SLE] LINUX CENTRINO DRIVER RELEASED

From: Anders Karlsson (anders_at_trudheim.com)
Date: 02/26/04

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Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:13:24 +0000

    On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 09:46, Clayton wrote:
    > On Thursday 26 February 2004 00:32, Dr. David M. Colburn wrote:
    > > A quick read suggests that this goes to WLAN drivers but it is
    > > unclear if for $15. one gets any improvement to overall Centrino
    > > performance apart from the WLAN feature.
    > >
    > > There is a 30-day free trial version ... anyone tried it yet?
    > >
    > > I cannot risk further destabilizing my mission-critical laptop (KDE
    > > is behaving badly) by testing it here at the moment.
    >
    > I've tried the Linuxant driver before - they've had it for a while
    > now... I guess the news item is all about the fact they've released a
    > new version. Basically it's a driver wrapper. You install their
    > wrapper, and then you install the WinXP WLAN driver that came with
    > your Centrino laptop. I tried it about 2 months ago. I think it
    > worked, but didn't have a WLAN to test it on before the trial ran
    > out. It did not destabilise my system... so... if you're not willing
    > to wait for Intel to cough up a driver for your WLAN, I'd say go for
    > it. I'm willing to wait at this point since I dont' need WLAN for my
    > everyday work with my Centrino.

    If this thread is about the Linuxant DriverLoader product, I safely say
    I use it, it works and considering Intel's delay in producing a linux
    driver for the Centrino wireless cards, I consider the $20 the product
    cost to be a reasonable price. The support is good and Linuxant keep
    improving on it. If there is anything to be said about it, it is that it
    doesn't feel quite right to use a windows driver, but at least things
    work.

    As for destabilising a mission critical system, if you are concerned
    about stability, you should not be installing anything on it, unless it
    is security patches to already installed software.

    From my personal experiences, DriverLoader does not destabilise my
    system, but has in the past been tricky to stop at shutdown, from about
    version 1.60 that has no longer been an issue. Very occasionally, it has
    failed to initialise the card properly, stopping and restarting
    DriverLoader has always worked in that scenario.

    If anyone want any more details, mail me off-list. 

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

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