centrino

[emodha]

does anybody in here know if there are any compatability issues with Linux and centrino?

I really want to buy a laptop with a centrino processor but am worried that problems will arrize. I'm going to college and don't have time to play around with things.

[jrbishop79]

well, since Centrino technology consists of a Mobile processor and a builtin wireless network card (802.11b) I don't think there are any forseeable problems with it.

[Dizzybacon]

There is a bit more to Centrino than that. It is a mobile processor and wireless LAN as you said but it also includes a different chipset structure around the processor.

I don't know if Linux would have trouble with that or not.

Dizzy

[Icarus]

My laptop has this, and works fine. The main issue is that the wireless card is a Broadcom, and these are well known not to work with Linux.

I've found a few sites that help on the other features of the chipset (like SpeedStep) and they provide kernel patches. Check http://linux-on-laptops.com/ for what you are look at getting and see what people needed to do to get things working

[oubipaws]

My friend has one but the internet works sometimes and others it doesn't.... thats only in red hat

Slackware, Gentoo, Debain, & Mandrake all work 'perfectly' fine... and he uses his laptop all of the time.