TuxMobil News - Linux on laptops, PDAs, mobile phones, .. 11/2003

From: Werner Heuser (Werner.Heuser_at_web.de)
Date: 11/30/03

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        Hello,

        this month's TuxMobil News digest[1] has again good news for Linux PDA, mobile
        phone and laptop users. I have made an extract of the most important
        messages below.

        Werner Heuser <wehe_at_tuxmobil.org>

    |=| SHARP continues their Linux PDA series. Their new Zaurus SL-C860 ships
        November 27th for the Japanese market[2]. The SL-6000 was announced for early
        in 2004[3]. OPIE 1.0.3[4] and OpenZaurus 3.3.5[5] were released. See also
        the first issue of the OpenZaurus Newsletter[6]. Finally FreshMeat
        has become aware of the changes in the PDA market and
        renamed the "Palm" Section To "Handhelds"[7].

    |=| Some vendors refuse to release specs or even a binary Linux driver for their
        WLAN cards. ndiswrapper[8] by Pontus Fuchs tries to solve this by making a
        kernel module that can load Microsoft-Windows NDIS drivers. Currently only
        BroadCom chips are supported. In the meanwhile Linuxant has made a commercial
        end-user license[9] available for DriverLoader. This driver uses a similar
        approach, but supports some more chipsets, including the WLAN chip comming
        with Intel's Centrino[tm] technology[10].

        Werner

        [1] http://tuxmobil.org/mobile_news_2003_11.html
        [2] http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS3852086383.html
        [3] http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6804055064.html
        [4] http://opie.handhelds.org/
        [5] http://openzaurus.org/
        [6] http://openzaurus.org/newsletters/2003.12/
        [7] http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/1030/
        [8] http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/
        [9] http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/
        [10] http://tuxmobil.org/centrino.html

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