Centrino Drivers

[JayMan8081]

Just wanted to post that the SourceForge Project working on the Intel Centrino drivers has posted an experimental driver for use with 2.4 and 2.6 kernels.
Looks like more laptop users may now be able to switch to Linux!

http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/#news

[Hayl]

do you know if they are reverse-engineered or if these are the ones that Intel is writing?

[Hayl]

nm... they are the Intel ones... the contact: James Ketrenos has an @linux.intel.com email address :)

[Icarus]

Originally posted by Hayl
do you know if they are reverse-engineered or if these are the ones that Intel is writing? In the sly Slashdot etiquette...RTFA :p

Heh, had to do it :D

The maintainer of the project is James Ketrenos, and his email address happens to be jketreno AT linux.intel.com
and the README states

Copyright(c) 2003 - 2004 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.


So, ya...these are official Intel. The driver/kernel module is open source and James is asking for community support to make them better, but the firmware is still closed. So development will be a lot of trial and error with heavy communication with James...I hope he's up to it :)

BTW, this doesn't work very well right now
What it does:

* Build (tested in 2.4.23-25, and 2.6.1-3)
* Initialize the firmware
* Scan and associate
* Limited support of iw* tools
* Infrastructure mode
* Dynamically load the binary firmware image from /etc/firmware/ipw2100-1.0.fw
* Fragmentation (Tx and Rx)

What it doesn't do:

* AdHoc mode
* WEP
* Restart the firmware after a 'fatal interrupt' received. WEP doesn't work and if it gets a 'fatal interrupt' you need to restart the device.

I will be keeping a very close eye on this project and plan to help with it as much as I can...I would LOVE full Linux support with this device!