Re: Open source Atheros wifi? (ath10k)
On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 07:30:16PM +0000, Brian wrote:
> 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.
>
As ever, you realise your mistake as soon as you've made it:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/
will point you to it:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/10.7.0+nonfree/amd64/iso-cd/firmware-10.7.0-amd64-netinst.iso
https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware is the page giving full details.
All best, as ever,
Andy C.
> --
> Brian.
>
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