Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 on a Thinkpad T60 laptop

At Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:06:36 -0600 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:

On 2/16/2011 12:41 PM, Robert Heller wrote:

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The wireless on the X31 is an Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter (rev 04). Intel wireless chips are *very well* supported *out of the box* under CentOS. You do need to download and install the proper firmware.

Isn't being supported "out of the box" and having to download something else a contradiction in terms? Not to mention a catch-22 when your usual connection to download is over wireless...

Downloading and installing the firmware was pretty close to painless, when compared to dealing with *other* wireless cards on other laptops: special kernel modules, special kernels, etc.