This. Wifi is the #1 reason by far that I ditched my $800 thinkpad to switch to a $3500 MPB. (to still be in a unix environment)
On my thinkpad, with one of the known, supported wifi chipsets, wifi would work about 8-9/10 times.
But because I'm doing web dev stuff, those 1 or 2 times would basically brick the laptop for doing any kind of productive work. And that's not worth any kind of savings or effort....
afaik it's a driver problem first, before a linux wifi problem, but really I have no idea why it was working or not working.
But if anyone is out there listening, this is how much the problem is worth to me- roughly $2500...
On my thinkpad, with one of the known, supported wifi chipsets, wifi would work about 8-9/10 times.
But because I'm doing web dev stuff, those 1 or 2 times would basically brick the laptop for doing any kind of productive work. And that's not worth any kind of savings or effort....
afaik it's a driver problem first, before a linux wifi problem, but really I have no idea why it was working or not working.
But if anyone is out there listening, this is how much the problem is worth to me- roughly $2500...