Touch Screen and WiFi cards

[ToddAndMargo]

Hi All,

I customer gave me a laptop he inherited to see what
could be done with it.  It works really nicely, so I need
to send him over recommendations.

1) does these really thin laptops have their wifi
cards soldered in or can they be replace?  (I can
usually replace regular laptop WiFi cards.)

I presume Intel's WiFi cards have good Fedora support?

2) does Fedora support touch screens?

Many thanks,
-T

[Sbob]

On 6/21/24 2:55 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I customer gave me a laptop he inherited to see what
> could be done with it.  It works really nicely, so I need
> to send him over recommendations.
> does these really thin laptops have their wifi
>
> cards soldered in or can they be replace?  (I can
> usually replace regular laptop WiFi cards.)
>
> I presume Intel's WiFi cards have good Fedora support?
> does Fedora support touch screens?
>
> Many thanks,
> -T

Most wifi cards are soldered, but not all of them, I have had several 
Thinkpads that had replace-able wifi cards. I am running Fedora 40 as we 
speak on a Dell XPS 17 with a touch screen, the touch screen works 
flawlessly out of the box

[ToddAndMargo]

On 6/21/24 14:13, Sbob wrote:
> On 6/21/24 2:55 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I customer gave me a laptop he inherited to see what
> > could be done with it.  It works really nicely, so I need
> > to send him over recommendations.
> > does these really thin laptops have their wifi
> >
> > cards soldered in or can they be replace?  (I can
> > usually replace regular laptop WiFi cards.)
> >
> > I presume Intel's WiFi cards have good Fedora support?
> > does Fedora support touch screens?
> >
> > Many thanks,
> > -T
>
> Most wifi cards are soldered, but not all of them, I have had several 
> Thinkpads that had replace-able wifi cards. I am running Fedora 40 as we 
> speak on a Dell XPS 17 with a touch screen, the touch screen works 
> flawlessly out of the box

Awesome!   I will just recommend if he does not like the
speed to get a USB WiFi adapter.

Thank you!

-T

[Go Canes]

On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 4:55 PM ToddAndMargo via users
 wrote:
> does these really thin laptops have their wifi
>
> cards soldered in or can they be replace?  (I can
> usually replace regular laptop WiFi cards.)

That would depend on the specific model.  The wi-fi card in a Dell XPS
13 or 17 are not soldered - I had to replace the factory card on a XPS
13, and have to remove/reinstall the card on a XPS 17 as part of a
keyboard replacement.
> I presume Intel's WiFi cards have good Fedora support?

The wi-fi card in the XPS 13 mentioned above was replaced with an
Intel.  I believe the 17 already had an Intel.  No known issues.

[Roger Heflin]

Intel AX200 series works great in my 2 laptops.  Much better than the
non-intel crap.

The support is not a Fedora issue, it is simply a Linux Kernel issue.
 The qualcomm native kernel driver is not good.   I replaced one in a
laptop 4 years ago, and when I got a new laptop struggled with the new
qualcomm card for a few weeks before replacing it.   And any
add-on/out-of-tree wifi drivers are an even bigger disaster...you have
to compiled it and every few versions get new code to support the new
kernel, and even with that I suspect that they may not be super
stable.

On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 3:55 PM ToddAndMargo via users
 wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I customer gave me a laptop he inherited to see what
> could be done with it.  It works really nicely, so I need
> to send him over recommendations.
> does these really thin laptops have their wifi
>
> cards soldered in or can they be replace?  (I can
> usually replace regular laptop WiFi cards.)
>
> I presume Intel's WiFi cards have good Fedora support?
> does Fedora support touch screens?
>
> Many thanks,
> -T
>
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