There's one huge advantage miniPCI devices like the
Intel ProWireless/2011 have over regular PCCard
devices: a lot less of power consumption. That is,
you will be able to use a full-charged notebook
battery longer with miniPCI than with PCMCIA.
Best regards, JB.
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--- Lewis G Rosenthal <lgrosenthal@2rosenthals.com>
wrote:
> Jens might have an idea on this, Mark. OTOH, I
> haven't seen any real
> performance benchmarks on Centrino Wi-Fi vs the more
> traditional cards
> ("traditional" is a funny word here, isn't it? I
> mean...what...two or
> three years since the technology has become
> widespread...? ;-) ). It
> might be a situation akin to finding WinModem
> drivers, only to discover
> that the performance of the hardware is so p-ss-poor
> that you'd be
> better off with a PCMCIA card.
>
> On 04/12/2004 02:38 pm, Mark Dodel thus wrote :
>
> >I never saw this post come through so I'm resending
> to see if the list is
> >still active.
> >
> >Mark
> >
> >
> >I haven't seen any posts here for a bit so I
> thought I'd post something.
> >
> >There is now a Linux driver from a Canadian company
> for Intel's Centrino
> >wireless card. Since its proprietary, there is no
> source so it doesn't
> >help OS/2. :-(
> >
>
><http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/02/25/HNlinuxdriver_1.html>
> >
> >The article does say "General manager of software
> and solutions at Intel,
> >Will Swope, recently said a Centrino-Linux driver
> was coming first in a
> >proprietary format and then open source once it's
> found out how to hide
> >the workings of its wireless technology. He refused
> however to give any
> >dates." Does this mean there will never be an
> Intel centrino wireless
> >driver for OS/2?
> >
> >Mark
> >
> >
> >
>
> --
> Lewis
>
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