[KLUG Advocacy] SuSE 9.1 - the good, the bad, and the ugly.

[Bruce Smith]

> > > > It found my Centrino wireless card, configured it, but it doesn't work.
> > > > I'm going to work on this more ...
> > > Crappy proprietary hardware! :)
> > Yeah, IBM makes nothing but crappy proprietary hardware.  :-)
> > Anyway, after a little research I found that the chipset requires a
> > firmware file downloaded from ibm.com.  And now  IT WORKS!!!!!!  :->
> 
> Awesome,  so I can get the internal WIC for my laptop now!

Yeah, if it's the same chipset.

One weirdness I noticed is it works fine when booting from power-off, 
but it fails from a soft reboot.  It's like it doesn't like loading 
the firmware twice.

 - BS