[email protected] wrote: > On Sun, Aug 07, 2016 at 07:53:44AM +0930, Brett Lymn wrote: >> [...] >> One thing which may be acceptable (and, in fact, I have been doing for >> a while*) is to get a supported USB wireless dongle and use that. It >> is not ideal but you will get wireless network.
Ok, that's right. This is always the last option. I already had some success with those tiny Edimax N150 dongles. But I was asking in the hope to find a notebook with supported internal WLAN. My company would then buy several of them. > I've removed the Broadcom wifi device inside my laptop and replaced it > with a more reasonable manufacturer's card. Now I am interested in the model and manufacturer of your laptop (always good to know which laptops don't whitelist) and the name of your replacement card. :) > not all laptops allow this, though, they may whitelist cards. I wonder how such a practice can be legal. But I have seen that too, and you never know before. A list with manufacturers/laptops which don't whitelist would be nice. -- Frank Wille
