On 19/06/13 13:10, Jason White wrote: > Toby Corkindale <[email protected]> wrote: >> So I bought another Lenovo Thinkpad laptop recently. (I like them, they >> work well with Linux, they're solidly built.) >> >> After having some minor annoyances with the Broadcom wireless in my >> previous thinkpad, this time I ordered one with an Intel wireless chip >> that'd be well supported in Linux. >> >> However once the laptop arrived, I discovered that the Intel option >> doesn't support the 5GHz band, which I really need at home. > > The Intel 5300 wireless card in my Lenovo X200 laptop supports the 5GHz band, > or at least claims to when I run iwlist wlan0 freq.
That's nice, that's a dual-band card. However my laptop came with the much newer Intel Centrino N 2300 chip, which is not dual-band. Apart from it obviously not seeing the channels, it's also confirmed by checking Intel's page. > Mine is not a new laptop, so I would expect more recent models to support the > 5GHz band too. Yeah, that was an assumption I made as well. My old Lenovo came with a dual-band wireless card too. I am quite surprised Lenovo ship this laptop with a low-spec wireless card. What I find quite ugly is the way they've BIOS-locked the machine to not allow you to upgrade it. _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
