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It may be that the lack of broadcom Linux drivers is starting to have some effect, at least at the high end? The new Dell 13" XPS comes with an atheros supporte
by pja 10y ago
It may be that the lack of broadcom Linux drivers is starting to have some effect, at least at the high end? The new Dell 13" XPS comes with an atheros supported wifi device - I guess Dell got tired of having to create an entirely seperate SKU just for the developer editions.
- awinter-py 10y agoI have an XPS 13 from this summer. lspci says: 3a:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4350 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 08) The driver works mostly but once in a while I have to `sudo service network-manager restart`, rmmod/modprobe mwifiex_pcie, or worst-case reboot the system. Obviously this happens at the worst possible times -- meetings and in the middle of important work. Their 'developer edition' uses intel wifi, I think, but is intermittently sold out and weirdly more expensive. You can buy an intel card and add it.
- pja 10y agoNew XPS 13" comes with a Killer 1535 Wifi chipset, which is Atheros based I believe. Specs at http://www.dell.com/uk/p/xps-13-9360-laptop/pd?ref=PD_OC http://www.dell.com/uk/p/xps-13-9360-laptop/pd?ref=PD_OC I think you bought the previous model. It’s possible that the UK gets slightly different specs of course, but seems unlikely?