Re: [Announce] Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 802.11b driver

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

James Ketrenos wrote:
> I am pleased to announce the launch of an open source development 
> project for
> the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 miniPCI network adapter. The project has been
> created and is hosted at http://ipw2100.sf.net.
> 
> The driver, as it currently stands, is able to associate and communicate in
> Infrastructure mode. Support for both 2.4 and 2.6 is available. We are
> releasing this driver now as "early beta" code to get feedback and help
> in the development, so expect bugs (and please report them)!  Of course
> Intel will continue the effort (as part of this Open Source project).
> We are planning to add support of all key wireless features (adhoc, WEP, 
> etc)
> over the next few months, quicker with help from others in the community.
> 
> NOTE: Let me reiterate -- this driver is in active development. Features 
> and
> capabilities available on other operating systems have not all been 
> implemented
> at this time. This includes wireless features (adhoc, wep) as well as
> performance and power savings.
> 
> I look forward to working with the community to improve and enhance the 
> driver.
> So if you have an Intel wireless 802.11b miniPCI network adapter in your
> laptop... download the bits, give it a whirl, and let me know how it goes.
> Please also let us know if you encounter any problems that may be 
> related to
> specific distributions.

Great job! Dare we hope that in the future the news 802.11[bg] unit I 
have seen mentioned would also be supported in a similar manner?

		-bill