Re: [SLE] LINUX CENTRINO DRIVER RELEASED
From: Malke Routh (malke_at_elephantboycomputers.com)
Date: 02/26/04
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To: "SuSE (E-mail)" <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 06:08:22 -0800
On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 03:13, Anders Karlsson wrote:
> 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.
I just want to add to Mr. Karlsson's post - I, too use the Linuxant
driverloader for my Thinkpad X31. My laptop has the built-in IBM
802.11a/b/g/ card (Atheros) and driverloader works perfectly for me. The
only issue I've seen with the laptop so far is that on two
non-consecutive occasions the system has slowed down so as to be
unusable until rebooted. However, I didn't think to run top until the
incident was over, so I have no idea why. The wireless connectivity
seems to be really good.
HTH,
Malke
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