I disagree, it is just because of marketing approach. I cannot recall a company, which is selling net-book or laptop with Intel WiMAX Connection and Linux. USB sticks also has driver supporting mostly 32-bit Windows systems. Some vendors like Samsung+Yota provide also x86-64-bit support. If some major vendor target Linux based laptops - these problem will be solved very quickly. At least for USB-sticks - there is no power supply problem and any USB2 capable laptop can use it. I used even with ASUS EeePC-4G - is working. But reality is - End Users not want to use Linux. Even If they buy laptop with Linux - they buy it because it was cheaper, later install some windows on it. And mWimax dongles is mass-market Enduser device. So as soon EndUser will like Linux - as soon there will be a lot of supported dongles. This is my opinion. Regards Peter 2010/7/16 Leigh Porter <leigh.porter at ukbroadband.com> > It is true, it is next to impossible. It is complete madness IMO and this > manor of madness is really hurting WiMAX. When I can pick up a 3G anything, > stick it in and it works and with WiMAX 1) you can barely get the modems 2) > hardly any drivers available 3) when you do get one, it?s 50/50 if it > actually works with whatever vendor your provider uses. > > > > What an utter disaster. > > > > -- > > Leigh > > > > > > *From:* wimax-bounces at linuxwimax.org [mailto:wimax-bounces at linuxwimax.org] > *On Behalf Of *Peter Lavee > *Sent:* 16 July 2010 08:18 > *To:* Othniel Graichen > *Cc:* wimax at linuxwimax.org > *Subject:* Re: Wimax cards for laptop > > > > I believe problem is well described in your letter. > > > > Nobody want it to be solved, because it is hard and unpredictable if you > use old notebook with any recent mPCIex WiMAX card, even if your notebook > has mPCIex slot, it may not be provide enough power for WiMAX card. > > > > With Intel WiMAX driver naturally only Intel cards would work. > > > > If you just need to run on Linux, you can try madwimax and CMC720 based > USB dongle prepared for Clear (I'm not sure will be 100% interop or not). > > > > Hope I answered your question. > > > > Best regards, > > Peter Lavee > > > > 2010/7/16 Othniel Graichen <othniel at gmail.com> > > Dear Mailing List: > > I would purchase an Intel wimax card and Clear subscription for my Dell > Inspiron D820. > > But this seems practically impossible. Ebay sellers say you need to verify > that your machine works. > > Intel doesn't want to talk to end-users and Dell only wants to sell you a > NEW notebook. > > Is there another wimax manufacturer which provides hardware compatible with > the Linux Wimax driver? > > I cant believe this problem is so hard to find the answer. > > omg > > > _______________________________________________ > wimax mailing list > wimax at linuxwimax.org > http://lists.linuxwimax.org/listinfo/wimax > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.linuxwimax.org/pipermail/wimax/attachments/20100716/23fa79aa/attachment.html>
