Re:System76 News: Coreboot and Linux Advances
by voltagex_ on Thursday May 02, 2019 @03:43AM
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Yep, replaced both the NVMe and the Broadcom wifi in my 9350. I'm not buying this year's model as the Killer wifi is soldered down. Killer indeed.
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For what its worth, I've had zero issues with WiFi on my 9380. The "killer" wifi is just an ath10k:
02:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 32)
Subsystem: Bigfoot Networks, Inc. Killer 1435 Wireless-AC
Kernel driver in use: ath10k_pci
As far as I can tell, its no different from any other Qualcomm Atheros WiFi. I believe the "killer" differences are just in the Windows drivers.
Re:System76 News: Coreboot and Linux Advances
by voltagex_ on Friday May 03, 2019 @08:34AM
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That's interesting - the only other issue is that I then can't upgrade to Wifi 6 or whatever, but that's probably not an issue until a few years down the track when all my other devices support the same standard.