Re: accessing wlan without non-free firmware?

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Subject: Re: accessing wlan without non-free firmware?
From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:54:46 +0100
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] 857993970811190200h3c536bd5g2d135fabf3a9519b@mail.gmail.com> (Tshepang Lekhonkhobe's message of "Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:00:56 +0200")
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On 2008-11-19 11:00 +0100, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:

> I struggled to get 4965 wireless working on my TravelMate 6592, and
> succeeded only once having installed firmware-iwlwifi from non-free.
> Is there a way to achieve this without going the non-free route?

Surely, buy a WLAN card that does not require non-free firmware.  The
Free Software Foundation has a list of them:
http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/net/wireless/cards.html.

BTW, why exactly does the firmware bug you?

Sven

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