Re: Open source Atheros wifi? (ath10k)
On Sat 16 Jan 2021 at 18:27:58 +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 01:19:21PM -0500, Steven Mainor wrote:
> > My main concern for the laptop in question is security. So from a security
> > standpoint, what is the difference between using a wifi card with built in
> > closed source firmware, and closed source firmware that is loaded by the
> > kernel like ath10k. Either way the firmware is only running on the card, Not
> > the CPU, correct?
> >
>
> There's a thread going on in debian-devel mailing list at the moment
> on more or less exactly the problem of getting wifi to work for
> nonfree firmware.
See
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2021/01/msg00151.html
Very informative.
> You may find that the firmware-atheros package from non-free in Debian
> will do the trick. You may need to put the .deb onto a USB stick. I
> can't quite remember whether the installer including the non-free
> firmware CD includes firmware-atheros by default but
It does include it.
> that's found at
> https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/debian-10.7.0-amd64-netinst.iso
That isn't the non-free, unofficial installer.
--
Brian.
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