<div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(51,0,51);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Tom,</div><div style="color:rgb(51,0,51);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default">
</div><div style="color:rgb(51,0,51);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default">There was a period in history where Intel "banned" Centrino on laptops from running Linux. </div><div style="color:rgb(51,0,51);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default">
</div><div style="color:rgb(51,0,51);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default">How can they "ban" an OS from running on a chip? Surely they just want to make chips and sell them, right? It's actually aimple -- they wrap it in license agreement with the manufacturers, that a manufacturer using their chips won't put said chips on a laptop not running an approved OS that has the hardware hooks that can do power management. </div>
<div style="color:rgb(51,0,51);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"> </div><div style="color:rgb(51,0,51);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Why the fuss? Intel brought out the Centrino brand to market a "low power consumption" product. They felt that without the power management at the OS layer, their brand would disappoint users if the power management capabilities could not be exercised the same way on Linux as in Windows.</div>
<div style="color:rgb(51,0,51);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"> </div><div style="color:rgb(51,0,51);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Once Linux 2.6.8 came out, which brought power management capabilities for Linux into the 21st century, Intel lifted this "ban" on Linux/Centrino.</div>
<div style="color:rgb(51,0,51);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"> </div><div style="color:rgb(51,0,51);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Because of this sordid history, finding support for anything circa 2006-and before will not be an easy task.</div>
<div style="color:rgb(51,0,51);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"> </div><div style="color:rgb(51,0,51);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default">HTH.</div><div style="color:rgb(51,0,51);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default">
</div><div style="color:rgb(51,0,51);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Angelo</div><div style="color:rgb(51,0,51);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default">
</div><div style="color:rgb(51,0,51);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"> </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 12:10 AM, tom <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thomas.w.cranston@gmail.com" target="_blank">thomas.w.cranston@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Whats with Intel Centrino? Linux does not seem to like it. I decided to<br>
load XP PRO on my Latitude D600, so I could see if the Intel BG2200<br>
wireless card would function.<br>
<br>
A little back story. I installed retroprecise 5.4.3 on it as nothing<br>
else Linux would install with the Centrino except DSL. The Linux driver<br>
did not work well with the wireless. Poorly. I decided to use the<br>
Ndiswrapper. I tried lots of appropriate windows drivers to no avail. I<br>
then thought install XP and see which driver is running the wireless,<br>
then use that driver on the drive that has retroprecise.<br>
<br>
I decided to install SolidWorks on the drive I put XP on while I was at<br>
it. That Windows software did not like the centrino either!!<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Tom<br>
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