On 2013-08-26 00:42, Stefan Sperling wrote: >If the built-in wireless card doesn't work, your options are to replace >it with a supported card or get a supported USB-based one. If you shop >around for used minipci cards or USB wifi sticks with names matching >the ones listed in driver man pages, you should get lucky. Note that >some laptops (e.g. Thinkpads) do not allow the built-in cards to be >replaced unless the new card matches a whitelist stored in the BIOS. >There are various hacks around this, but it's a nuisance.
I don't know what I will buy for my next laptop. It used to be a no-brainer, buy a thinkpad, but the newer lenovo models are of distinctly shoddy quality compared to what IBM used to put out. Proof being my latest laptop, which happens to have the "same" keyboard model as the old IBM thinkpad, except that it's mostly plastic instead of metal, and it stopped working properly fairly soon (I did actually replace it with the keyboard from the older laptop, which is how I noticed the abysmal drop in component quality there)...
