I’ve never messed with or changed out a laptop or small computer wi-fi chip before. I am looking to upgrade my FW13 and 16 wi-fi 6 chips to series 7. Is it pretty much standard that you have to use an AMD wi-fi chip with AMD motherboards/processors and Intel wi-fi chips with Intel Motherboards/processors? Or can you mix and match them since you have to load the chip specific driver anyway?
Currently there seems to be a firmware issue (either with the cards for the motherboards) that causes Intel Wi-Fi 7 cards to only work with some AMD motherboards (and Framework’s boards are not among those some).
Intel also has some Wi-Fi cards that use a proprietary protocol that makes them Intel exclusive, although their Wi-Fi 7 cards don’t use that (afaik it is purely a firmware issue causing the incompatibility).
Other than those two cases Wi-Fi cards are usually universal.
AMD recommends the AMD RZ738 Wi-Fi card for Wi-Fi 7 and Intel recommends the Intel BE200 Wi-Fi card for Wi-Fi 7. Several users have also reported success with Qualcomm Wi-Fi 7 cards.