Or am I misunderstanding the terminology? Obviously neither is ideal but is either less secure? --- Steven Mainor --- Steven Mainor On 2021-01-16 12:52, Reco wrote:
Hi. On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 12:25:10PM -0500, Steven Mainor wrote:I have a laptop with a QCA9377 Atheros AC wifi card. When I install debian 10.7 amd64 I get a warning about missing non-free firmware and the wifi doesn't work. It was my understanding that ath10k was open source and included in linux. Is this not the case?The driver is free software. The firmware it requires is not. Thank US FCC for that - [1].If not is there any wireless AC card that doesn't require binary drivers?To the best of my knowledge - there are none. Again, [1].And barring that, what is the best wifi(N?) card I can buy that doesn't require closed source drivers/firmware?Anything that's ath9k supports does not require any firmware at all. Ath9k is limited to 802.1n though. See [2] for an example list. Reco [1] https://hackaday.com/2016/02/26/fcc-locks-down-router-firmware[2] https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/ath9k/products/external
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