alt Hacker NewsOn the other hand - I just had to send my Asus vivobook s15 to repair, because Linux (most likely) fried the wifi chip.
Pretty disappointed in Qualcomm's promise of upstream support for Snapdragon X Elite turning out to be: lol, not actually so you can run Linux on devices, only so you can maybe boot without most devices working...
Hope things will keep improving despite lack of help from vendors.
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pmontra • today at 1:30 PM
Not one of the downvoters. How would the kernel fry the Wi-Fi chip?
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The radio limits are very heavily guarded by the firmware solely because its regulatory compliance: different jurisdictions have different limits and you can’t just let userspace or kernel change it at will. Heck, most manufacturers don’t let you change WiFi card anymore or allow only a whitelisted WWAN card for same reason.
So, I would be super interested how you inferred it was Linux’ fault but I sssume b/s at this point.