On 24 May 2014 23:33, Jeremy Visser <[email protected]> wrote: > On 23/05/2014 12:31, Bianca Gibson wrote: >> - reliable under fedora >> - compact enough I can leave it in at all times, including while >> transporting the laptop >> - decent range. My temporary borrowed USB wifi is pretty slow in the corner >> of the office. > > ...pick one. ;-) > > But seriously, if I were you, I would spend more time on sorting out why > the Wi-Fi is flaky. Might be that it's missing a proprietary firmware > blob or something? > > The other thing is, most PCs have their internal Wi-Fi in the form of a > mini-PCIe card hidden under a panel similar to (if not the same as) the > one you would use to replace the RAM. > > This means the Wi-Fi card is often replaceable. I have a one or two > mini-PCIe Wi-Fi cards lying around that I salvaged from otherwise broken > PCs that work well in Linux. There are far too many cards that work > under Linux to list them all, but you may be able to obtain a card or > smashed up laptop off eBay that you can salvage a card from.
Unless you have a Thinkpad, or some HPs, and possibly others. If you replace the mini-PCIE card on my Lenovo, the system refuses to boot at all. http://support.lenovo.com/en_AU/diagnose-and-fix/detail.page?DocID=HT001309 -Toby _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
