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From:  Lewis G Rosenthal <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
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Subject: [OS2Wireless] Intel chipsets on Centrino Notebooks, supported?

Thanks, Jonas. I hadn't even thought about the NDIS considerations (I 
was thinking lower down).

On 01/15/2004 12:30 pm, Jonas Buys thus wrote :

>The emulation layer for Linux is entirely different
>than what an equivalent for OS/2 should be.  windows
>NIC device drivers are NDIS 5.0 compliant.  OS/2
>sticks to NDIS 2.01.  So it would just be a matter of
>catching the new "API calls" and translating them in
>2.01.  Linux on the other hand does NOT have NDIS at
>all!  Anyway, I know that the company is something
>like Scitechsoft Inc., and they do offer official
>support for the Centrino driver with use of their
>Linux project.
>Though I haven't tested myself, I guess the product is
>quite awsome.  I do plan to test the driver later next
>month for Gigabit testing purposes.
>
>Hope that's answer to your question.
>Regards, JB/2.
>  
>
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Lewis 
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