[kwlug-disc] More wi-fi adventures

[Chris Irwin]

On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 10:32 PM Nickle, Brian <brian at nickle.ca> wrote:

> It is a Lenovo X201 thinkpad running an Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6200
> (rev 35).  And honestly until 18.04 it was rock solid.
>
> It might be worth trying a different card I might also boot back into
> 16.04 just to verify that the hardware is working correctly and i'm not
> dealing with a failing card.
>

Just a warning, but Lenovo has a vendor whitelist in their BIOS which will
prevent non-oem wifi cards from working (unless you have a modified BIOS).

Luckily, an X201 should be easy to flash a whitelist-removed BIOS on.

(I have not done this, but I have read up on it, due to wanting to upgrade
my wireless).

-- 
Chris Irwin
<chris at chrisirwin.ca>
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