On Mar 26, 2013 11:56 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. > > [snip] > > Curtis Shimamoto > sugar.and.scruffy [at] gmail.com Might I ask what problems you had? My experience with the 8192 was poor only because the drivers were in staging until the 3.0 kernel release. I switched to the 8188 in my netbook and the 8171 (maybe, my memory is failing me on that one) on my main laptop. Not all realtek chipsets are equal...
