u/Pierre_mkb

▲ 6 r/LinuxOnThinkpad+1 crossposts

I hate Mediatek WiFi 7 card

I recently bought a P14s Gen 6 AMD, and it came with the mt7925 WiFi 7 chipset. I assumed that it was replaceable, but now I’m stuck with a malfunctioning WiFi and in 3 week I leave France to go study 1 year in Canada. I don’t want to troubleshoot in a foreign country and I heard online that sometimes it just don’t work, and I’m on Linux NixOs which doesn’t make my problem easier to solve.
The current situation is : the mt7925 fails multiples times 4-way handshake when connecting to my WiFi, prompting me for password but it won’t connect anyway, and after multiple tries it magically connect by black magic like idk 🤷🏻‍♂️.
Maybe it’s works better on Windows, but my thinkpad will never see windows until I’m dead.

My final advise is to never buy a thinkpad with soldered mt7925. Even on windows it seems not that great.

Ps: I enabled unfree firmwares, and I’m on a recent kernel (7.1.something)

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u/Pierre_mkb — 8 days ago
▲ 108 r/thinkpad

My first thinkpad : p14s gen 6 amd

Of course it will run only Linux. Config : Ryzen ai 7 350, 32GB of ram, 1 TB ssd performance, 400 nits non-touchscreen display. All of that for 1300€ on Lenovo’s website (link here)
I think it’s a bargain at that price.
First impressions are great, this thing feels solid compared to my previous laptop (dell insiron 5625)

u/Pierre_mkb — 23 days ago