Intel extreme graphics - does it work?

Satish Balay balay at fastmail.fm
Wed May 5 15:16:08 UTC 2004



On Wed, 5 May 2004, Tim Kossack wrote:

> Am Mi, den 05.05.2004 schrieb Jeremy Brown um 16:41:
> > Tim Kossack wrote:
> > 
> > >also, afaik if it's a centrino, wlan is hard to get to run?
> > 
> > Don't know much about your graphics chipset, but I can attest that 
> > getting Linux and Centrino to cooperate is not fun at all.  I've been 
> > able to get it to work on my laptop part of the time using ndiswrapper 
> > (http://ndiswrapper.sf.net), but with some stability issues.  I 
> > eventually got tired of having to restart my laptop every few hours, and 
> > just shoved in a PCMCIA wlan card instead.
> > 
> > It's really unfortunate, since so many new laptops ship with Centrino by 
> > default.
> 
> have you tried the preview of the new intel driver?
>
> http://support.intel.com/support/network/wireless/sb/CS-006408-prd448.htm

There is a prebuilt version of this driver for FC1 kernels. checkout:
https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1494

Satish





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