Quoting John Scott (2021-05-30 00:55:04) > On Sat, 2021-05-29 at 23:26 +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > > On Sat, 2021-05-29 at 07:27 -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > > > Can anyone suggest a WiFi USB adapter that works with debian? > > > > > > (Disclaimer: I'm the maintainer of the firmware-ath9k-htc package, > > > and ThinkPenguin, one of the vendors, has compensated me for my work.) > > > > > > I suggest getting a wireless adapter that is Respects Your Freedom > > > certified by the Free Software Foundation to work with only free > > > software. You can see a list of those here: > > > https://ryf.fsf.org/products?category=7 > > No 802.11ac, right? > Correct, to the best of my knowledge there don't exist any libre Wi-Fi > adapters supporting 802.11ac, USB or otherwise. Even the OpenWifi > project seems to have their sights set on 802.11n. Seems OpenWifi has (at least a subset of) the newer 802.11ax in sight: https://github.com/open-sdr/openwifi/issues/56 https://github.com/open-sdr/openwifi/issues/19 That said, I agree that 802.11n is the limit with Free drivers today. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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