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Centrino wireless mini-PCI cards gain stable GPL Linux driver

Thursday, February 03 2005 @ 12:40 PM EST
Contributed by: glosser

LinuxDevices.com brings news of Intel's Centrino mini-PCI wireless 802.11b/g adapter driver hitting 1.0 status.
An open source project has achieved the first stable release of a Linux driver for Intel's mini-PCI wireless 802.11b/g adapters. The IPW2200 project, founded by Intel, is offering the 1.00 version of a GPL'd driver for Intel's PRO/Wireless 2200BG and 2915BG miniPCI adapters for free download.

Intel's mini-PCI cards are used in "Centrino" laptops from a variety of integrators, and the company has been criticized in the open source community for taking so long to get a quality wireless/Centrino driver out the door.
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