On Mar 26, 2013 10:56 AM, "Curtis Shimamoto" <sugar.and.scruffy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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.
