I have a new XPS 15 running the 4.4 Kernel - Skylake is very buggy as is the bro...

nyc640 · on March 12, 2016

All the laptops mentioned in the article ship with Intel WiFi.

forgotpwtomain · on March 12, 2016

>> We really liked the updated Skylake-powered Dell XPS 13, and its bigger brother, the XPS 15, was also pretty great.

> All the laptops mentioned in the article ship with Intel WiFi.

This is wrong - the XPS 15 does not.

> 02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43602 802.11ac Wireless LAN SoC (rev 01)

nyc640 · on March 12, 2016

*All the laptops mentioned in the article as shipping with Linux from Dell will in fact come with Intel WiFi.

forgotpwtomain · on March 12, 2016

> *All the laptops mentioned in the article as shipping with Linux from Dell will in fact come with Intel WiFi.

Source? I see no indication of that (here is where they link to for the XPS 15: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/01/dell-xps-15-review-a-...)

desdiv · on March 12, 2016

http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-9350-laptop-ubuntu/...

>Intel 8260 2x2 802.11ac 2.4/5GHz + Bluetooth4.1

forgotpwtomain · on March 12, 2016

That's a link for the 13' not the 15'

spankalee · on March 12, 2016

>*All the laptops mentioned in the article as shipping with Linux from Dell will in fact come with Intel WiFi.

nyc640 · on March 15, 2016

The XPS 15 isn't shipping with Linux, the Precision 5510 is (enterprise version of XPS 15).

http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/precision-m5510-workstatio...

ajsalminen · on March 12, 2016

Yeah, this certainly wasn't the case with the previous Developer Edition XPS13. You apparently got Intel with some versions of it and not with others and information about which version included what was pretty difficult to come by. Broadcom supplied a binary blob driver for their wireless but that's not ideal...