On Mar 26, 2013 10:56 AM, "Curtis Shimamoto"
On 03/26/13 at 01:37pm, Julien Pecqueur wrote:
Which card did you bought?
Cordialement,
Julien Pecqueur
There was a mention above about buying a Realtek card. I just want to mention that my experience with Realtek wireless chipsets has been nothing but hell.
My Thinkpad came with a Realtek that used the rtl8192ce module, and it was terrible. I recently was forced to try it again, and it had gotten better, but was still of pretty questionable quality.
The first time I replaced it I was able to flash a modified bios that removed the Lenovo wifi card whitelist, and replaced it with an Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6235 which was amazing.
This time, I was unable to remove the whitelist (or rather flash the newly modified bios, removal was the same as always) so I was able to find the Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2230 that was apparently an option with this laptop.
My experience with Intel wireless has been fantastic, and I highly recommend them. I have also been told that Atheros support is very good as well. Though it has been quite some time since my last use of an Atheros chipset on Linux (my old MacBook 2,1 has an Atheros, but that machine has since gone back to OS X as a "family computer").
-- Curtis Shimamoto sugar.and.scruffy [at] gmail.com
I just wanted to add that I have had good experience with Atheros as well (ath9k driver in particular). It should work out of box.