As already reported by IsComputerOn, HaikuNews, and OSNews, an Intel Pro Wireless 2100 driver is now available for Haiku, courtesy of Michael “mmlr” Lotz . In addition to being milestone in Haiku’s development, the driver also reportedly functions in R5 – which should be very welcome news for BeOS users who own laptops. The Intel 2100 chipset is apparently quite common, found in PCI, PCMCIA, and USB adapters – it was included in the first implemention of Intel’s Centrino “platform” (Carmel), which was used in many portable computers.

There has also been some recent progress with Haiku’s network stack, Axel D??rfler has posted a status update on Haik-OS.org:

Work on the networking stack is making slow but steady progress. UDP and IPv4 protocols are mostly done, TCP can send out data, but receiving is not yet implemented.

Current work is concentrating on getting TCP ready, and to implement a network server. This server is responsible for configuring the stack when it’s started, and to take over inetd services and similar things that can or even should live in userland.

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