Re:Ten Years of ThinkPadding
by leeoniya on Monday February 07, 2022 @12:56PM
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> Came with MediaTek 7961 WiFi, which while supported by mainline Linux, the performance is trash (~30MBit on 802.11ac). Luckily it's only M.2 so you can replace it with something like the AX201
yep, those mediatek cards aren't just slow, they's complete trash (see my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30248380). i swapped it out for an Intel AX210 on my P14s Gen2 (Ryzen 7 Pro).
on linux you need Kernel 5.15.13+ for AX210 since the bluetooth side (connected over M2's usb bus) fails to come back up after waking from sleep or soft reboots. i dont think that patch was in 5.16.0 when i tried.
yep, those mediatek cards aren't just slow, they's complete trash (see my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30248380). i swapped it out for an Intel AX210 on my P14s Gen2 (Ryzen 7 Pro).
on linux you need Kernel 5.15.13+ for AX210 since the bluetooth side (connected over M2's usb bus) fails to come back up after waking from sleep or soft reboots. i dont think that patch was in 5.16.0 when i tried.
https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-bluetooth/msg96194.html