But what of the Centrino vs mPCI vs PCCard performance issue, Jonas?
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On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 16:00:05 -0700 (PDT) Jonas Buys <jonas_buys@yahoo.com>
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>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.
><< www.os2warp.be >>
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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
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
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