It says 802.11a (amongst others "802.11a/b/g/n") which implies it also can tune 5GHz channels.
On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 7:00 PM Tomas Kuchta <tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I noticed that the wifi card is 2.4GHz - if I have not overlooked the 5GHz > part, it may not even have 5GHZ antena to plug into the new wifi 6e (ax) > card. That could spoil the replacement idea. > > I suggest to open the laptop and look for the 5GHz antena. It may be there > unplugged or taped to some safe spot. > > Tomas > > On Mon, Sep 23, 2024, 20:08 Russell Senior <russ...@personaltelco.net> > wrote: > > > 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 > >
