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Are there any modern wifi cards that work with Linux and have 100% FOSS drivers (no proprietary binary blobs)? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 4 months ago by KseniyaK@lemmy.ca to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I was thinking of getting a wifi card like that, but can't seem to find any.

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[–] FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi 12 points 4 months ago

Here's a good list: https://github.com/morrownr/USB-WiFi/blob/main/home/USB_WiFi_Adapters_that_are_supported_with_Linux_in-kernel_drivers.md

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Not very modern, but this card is also available on Novacustom Laptops

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 months ago

For something relatively fast, I suggest you stick to Intel chipsets, and avoid realtek like the plague. As others mentioned, you can go with Atheros, but your speed will certainly suffer, as well as probably breaking the ability to put the computer to sleep with S3.

I understand you would rather go with 100% FOSS, but this carries trade-offs.

[–] CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Even if so, it would likely still have proprietary blobs, just embedded into a ROM or flash chip on the card. Personally, I'd rather have firmware loaded at runtime over hard-coded, at least then the blob is able to be reverse engineered possibly.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago

Intel has entered the chat

[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I got an Atheros card, which is fine for WiFi on Debian 12 and was cheap to buy. Drivers were in the Debian foss repo. Bluetooth is not working on it though. Interestingly, the Bluetooth did work under PureOS but I never figured out why.

[–] Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Interestingly, the Bluetooth did work under PureOS but I never figured out why.

The bluetooth probably needs a non-free firmware blob, as most of them do.

[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah maybe. I would expect PureOS to come with less non-free components though, being that it's endorsed by the FSF. I was quite surprised that BT was not working after switching to Debian.