Broadcom wifi is famously bad on Linux because of hostility from Broadcom to open source software. Broadcom is the NVidia of the networking world. In theory, you might be able to replace the wifi radio with an Intel wifi radio. Although, sometimes the radios are locked by BIOS checks. Also, it seems to be limited to 802.11n (which is a couple generations old), which could also explain the speed differences.
Maybe something like this would work: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09CDFV2CL/ On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 4:48 PM David Fleck <dcfl...@protonmail.ch> wrote: > > Output of command: > > 25:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM43224 > 802.11a/b/g/n [14e4:4353] (rev 01) > Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company WMIB-275N Half-size Mini PCIe Card > [103c:1509] > Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19 > Memory at d4100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] > Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3 > Capabilities: [58] Vendor Specific Information: Len=78 <?> > Capabilities: [48] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ > Capabilities: [d0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00 > Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting > Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel > Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 00-00-7a-ff-ff-2b-20-10 > Capabilities: [16c] Power Budgeting <?> > Kernel driver in use: bcma-pci-bridge > Kernel modules: bcma > > > > -- > - David Fleck > > > On Monday, September 23rd, 2024 at 2:27 PM, Russell Senior > <russ...@personaltelco.net> wrote: > > > e.g.: > > > > $ lspci | grep Network | awk '{ print $1}' | while read d ; do lspci > > -s $d -v -nn ; done > > aa:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6 > > AX210/AX211/AX411 160MHz [8086:2725] (rev 1a) > > Subsystem: Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6 AX210 160MHz [8086:0024] > > Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16, IOMMU group 17 > > Memory at 7a200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] > > Capabilities: <access denied> > > > > Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi > > Kernel modules: iwlwifi > > > > On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 9:24 AM Russell Senior > > russ...@personaltelco.net wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 5:51 AM David Fleck dcfl...@protonmail.ch wrote: > > > > > > > So far, my laptop quest has lead me to an HP EliteBook 8560p cast off > > > > by my employer. So, yay, free! > > > > > > > > Installed OpenSuse Leap 15.6, everything seems to just work, except: > > > > battery is dead (easily fixed) and the wifi is molasses-in-January > > > > slow, as in 2 orders of magnitude slower than other laptops in the > > > > house. > > > > > > A good place to start is to figure out what the wifi interface is. > > > What does lspci call the wifi interface? > > > > > > -- > > > Russell Senior > > > russ...@personaltelco.net
