It seems that Intel is gatekeeping WiFi 7 and I analyzed the options that we currently have.

  • Dave.@aussie.zone
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    9 months ago

    Honestly, I don’t know how the BE200 works

    My guess after skimming this thread:

    Bare bones radio interface with all the smarts being done by CPU extensions and coprocessors in your existing chipset. If you don’t have the extensions/coprocessors, no deal.

    Very similar to Intel’s video decoding enhancements where they stack a bunch of special instructions and hardware in the CPU to take the load off software video decoding.

    • HelloHotel@lemm.ee
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      9 months ago

      Bare bones radio interface with all the smarts being done by CPU extensions and coprocessors

      So if I understand this right, that means you already have wifi7 support, you just need to unlock it with the m.2 shaped key.