Florence HENRY <Florence.Henry@obspm.fr> writes:

> I plan to replace my old Dell laptop running fine NetBSD by a new Dell
> (latitude D600) shiped with the the Intel Centrino processor.

The processor is called Pentium M, the concept-kit including
processor, northbridge, and wlan interface is called Centrino.

> but I am not sure I understand well the problem : is it only the
> wi-fi card that is unsupported by unix

As far as I understand it, yes.

> In summary : do I have a chance to run NetBSD on it (to tell the
> truth, I won't buy the machine if I cannot) ?

I think so, but what do I know.

/Johan