@[email protected] to [email protected] • 1 year agoAre there any modern wifi cards that work with Linux and have 100% FOSS drivers (no proprietary binary blobs)?message-square27fedilinkarrow-up1106
arrow-up1106message-squareAre there any modern wifi cards that work with Linux and have 100% FOSS drivers (no proprietary binary blobs)?@[email protected] to [email protected] • 1 year agomessage-square27fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink7•1 year agoYou could always get an Ethernet-connected AP. This will allow you to use the latest WiFi but not compromise your OS.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink8•1 year agoThat’s the beautiful thing - it doesn’t matter.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•1 year agosome people would prefer to only use FOSS software and hardware, though
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agoGood luck with that. What switch are you going to run? What access point what gateway for your ISP.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•edit-21 year agopretty much any open source hardware can do all of those things… not sure what you’re trying to say
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•1 year agoYeah but to the degree that they need the firmware running on each chip in the device to be a FOSS chip firmware?
minus-squarePossibly linuxcakelinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoIf you are going that route just use vfio
You could always get an Ethernet-connected AP. This will allow you to use the latest WiFi but not compromise your OS.
What os is the ap running?
That’s the beautiful thing - it doesn’t matter.
some people would prefer to only use FOSS software and hardware, though
Good luck with that. What switch are you going to run? What access point what gateway for your ISP.
pretty much any open source hardware can do all of those things… not sure what you’re trying to say
Yeah but to the degree that they need the firmware running on each chip in the device to be a FOSS chip firmware?
If you are going that route just use vfio