Nick Rout wrote: >On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 11:58:39 -0400 >Byron Pezan wrote: > > > > > >>FYI here is an lspci output from a Dell Centrino machine. The Broadcom >>entry at the bottom is the builtin wireless card, which incidentally >>only works with NDISWrapper. >> >> > >AFAIK the Centrino branding requires Intel/PRO wireless stuff, not >broadcom. How does your machine get a centrino sticker? or is broadcom a >rebadged intel wireless set? or has the standard been relaxed? > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrino > >http://www.intel.com/products/centrino/ > >[snip] > > >>Controller (rev 20) >>0000:02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g >>Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03) >> >>Byron >>-- >>gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list >> >> > > > I don't know that I have a good answer to that, a quick Google search did not reveal much. I believe that in the early days of Centrino Intel was forced to partner with other WIFI chip makers to meet their release date. Which may have set the standard lower than was expected from the very beginning. It may also be as simple as the chassis being pre-stickered Centrino and assembled with a Broadcom chip due to a back order on the Intel chips.
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