Re: Comments on Lenovo desktops
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 12:09:21PM +0100, Andrew Wood wrote:
> I had a Lenovo ThinkPad i could not get its broadcom wifi to work with
> debian i think because it had a tranistor based power switch which
> was off by default and needed windows only drivers to turn it on and
> then the screen failed when it wasnt very old. Would never consider
> another lenovo product
I purchased a ThinkPad (x250) installed Sid using ethernet, and just as
I read your message set up wireless. I had to install the driver for the
card (firmware-iwlwifi), had to work around the annoyance that the
RF-kill switch (F8) has no LED to indicate its status, had to set up my
interfaces to use wlp3s0 rather than wlan0. Did an ifdown eth0 and ifup
wlp3s0 and am now relying on wireless connection. The only problem is
that wicd-gtk does not see the wireless network for some reason.
I have used ThinkPads before and do not see why you are negative about
them. I don't think I ever had Broadcom wifi.
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