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Re:ThinkPad X1 Carbon by ageofwant on Friday December 30, 2016 @11:58PM (#13289568)
Linux Intel support is the best of all vendors, as far as I can tell. They have dedicated Linux driver devs and their specs are open. The quality of their drivers reflects this. In future I'll walk wide circles around anything broadcom.
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Re:ThinkPad X1 Carbon by djdmngz on Saturday December 31, 2016 @02:41AM (#13290023)
Qualcomm Atheros also has dedicated devs for their Linux driver. Broadcomm stopped making wireless cards for the PC market earlier this year.
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Re:ThinkPad X1 Carbon by hedora on Monday January 02, 2017 @02:16PM (#13303580)
It looks like this may be a winner: AEX-QCA9880-NX

Except maybe they explicitly removed linux support:

http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg110852.html

I can't find a hardware rev number on on the amazon page (was 1.0 ever sold to the public?). Also, the amazon page says it is for engineering samples only / contact vendor before ordering. Hmm.

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Re:ThinkPad X1 Carbon by hedora on Monday January 02, 2017 @01:52PM (#13303391)
According to Intel, installing Intel wifi adapters in computers or laptops "may be illegal":

https://communities.intel.com/thread/108092

I'll probably buy one anyway.

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