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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!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I am guessing modern wifi features and speeds aren't important to you. Note that using an 802.11n device on a network with ac/ax devices will slow down all other devices traffic

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Do you have an alternative blobfree card?

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

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