Re:Ten Years of ThinkPadding
by kogepathic on Monday February 07, 2022 @09:29AM
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> I believe X13 Gen 2 has soldered WiFi, not M.2.
According to the hardware maintenance manual: "Wireless LAN card (for selected AMD models)" [1]
I can confirm from the internal photos I have of my X13 AMD Gen 2 (I swapped the stock SSD for a SK Hynix P31 Gold 1TB) that the WiFi is indeed M.2 socketed.
[1] https://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/mobiles_pdf/t14s_gen2_x13...
Huh, you are absolutely right, my MT7961 is M.2 too. I too have swapped my SSD but I guess I didn't look at the WiFi chip at the time because I "knew" it was soldered.
I was originally looking to buy one of the X13 Gen 2 Intel models that have it soldered, I must've thought it applied to AMD as well.
I guess I'll try out Intel AX210 then, to see which one actually works better for me.
> - Came with MediaTek 7961 WiFi, which while supported by mainline Linux, the performance is trash (~30MBit on 802.11ac).
It works perfectly for me on Fedora 35 (kernel 5.15), with consistent speeds around 800-900Mbps. The AP is an ASUS RT-AX86U.
Also somewhat surprisingly, while Intel AX200/201 is faster as it supports 160MHz (I had it before), the MT7961 has been more stable for me, both speed-wise and bug-wise, so far anyway. But YMMV.
> Luckily it's only M.2 so you can replace it with something like the AX201
I believe X13 Gen 2 has soldered WiFi, not M.2.