In my Clevo Laptop with @[email protected] and @[email protected] Coreboot firmware I now have replaced another proprietary part!

The Intel AX200 previously installed waits for a new use case, while I swapped in the Qualcomm Atheros Y8512 pci-e Wifi card, which has #blobfree drivers and thus runs fully on Linux, not just on some #nonfree kernels (that basically break the open source philosophy by including proprietary code in the single most critical root binary on your system)

It works great, just downloaded a Firefox release. zip over wifi without a single stutter!

  • Pantherina@feddit.deOP
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    9 months ago

    Do you have an alternative blobfree card?

    Our router is old and other devices here are too. Thats not a worry for me.

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      9 months ago

      There are no blobless cards newer than wifi 4 afaik, wifi 5+ seem to be complicated enough they need updatable firmwares