The weird thing is that it seems to be working? Either I misdiagnosed the problem, or maybe my old one was just broken.

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[–] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Devices are configurable via software. If windows managed to “flip a switch” on the WiFi chip, it would affect Linux as well if it didn’t reset it on boot.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    This. Way back in the day, I had a sound card that would absolutely not work in one OS unless I'd already booted into a different one and "activated" it with the driver there.

    It might have been Win9x and WinNT, but it could just as easily have been Win9x and some early-ish version of RedHat.

    But anyway, it would not surprise me to learn that the same sort of thing still happens with some hardware.

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