BCM43224 should be supported, but it is definitely 802.11N so yeah that's gonna be a slow.
I found the manual for that laptop, it's almost antique :D http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c03052147.pdf (not sure if he's gonna see this message since it's proton->PLUG->proton and that is still broken) -Ben On Monday, September 23rd, 2024 at 5:07 PM, Russell Senior <[email protected]> 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 [email protected] 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 > > [email protected] 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 > > > [email protected] wrote: > > > > > > > On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 5:51 AM David Fleck [email protected] 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 > > > > [email protected]
