Does anyone know when we may see Centrino support for linux?

The reason I'm asking is because I just bought a dell 600m laptop and I'm just wonding how long its going to take for the features to be supported on Linux.

ist centrino just a wireless adapter on board?

Nope Centrino is a lable that Intel gives for a laptop that has a Pentium-M Mobile Processor, the 855 chipset, and the Intel pro wireless card.

most laptops has mobile proc.(like mine) and only thing that is exception is a wirelles card as i said. learn your wireless and check on the if there is a support for it

The Centrino Technology is definitly more that just the wireless. First the processor is quite a bit different than the Mobile PIII or the Mobile P4. It will turn off parts of the cache when its not using it. The Centrino technology will also just off all sorts of components when not in use which has caused problems in Windows XP's battery monitor (jumping up and down). The wireless support I can care less about since I already have another wireless card that I know works with Linux. I just want the chipset and Pentium-M features to be supported.

I'm pretty certain the Intel card with the Centrino "chipset" is just another Orinoco clone, I haven't seen the model number... but we'll find out soon enough. A lot of the speed flogging and blah blah blah that'll probably end up in the main tree of 2.6.x right after the feature freeze gets pulled, or more likely we'll get at least the benifit of some of the acpi and the rest will trickle in as more and more laptops get built with this kid inside.

Cheers,

Finegan

Intel are still working on it.