On 19/06/13 13:10, Jason White wrote:
Toby Corkindale <toby.corkindale@strategicdata.com.au> 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.