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Re: Open source Atheros wifi? (ath10k)

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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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Open source Atheros wifi? (ath10k) Steven Mainor <steve@degga.net> - 2021-01-16 18:30 +0100
  Re: Open source Atheros wifi? (ath10k) Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2021-01-16 19:00 +0100
    Re: Open source Atheros wifi? (ath10k) Steven Mainor <steve@degga.net> - 2021-01-16 19:20 +0100
      Re: Open source Atheros wifi? (ath10k) "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-01-16 19:30 +0100
        Re: Open source Atheros wifi? (ath10k) Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-01-16 20:40 +0100
          Re: Open source Atheros wifi? (ath10k) "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-01-16 22:20 +0100
            Re: Open source Atheros wifi? (ath10k) Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-01-17 20:30 +0100
          Re: Open source Atheros wifi? (ath10k) Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-01-16 23:00 +0100
            Re: Open source Atheros wifi? (ath10k) The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2021-01-16 23:10 +0100
              Re: Open source Atheros wifi? (ath10k) Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-01-17 06:10 +0100
                Re: Open source Atheros wifi? (ath10k) Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2021-01-17 13:50 +0100
                Re: Open source Atheros wifi? (ath10k) Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-01-18 08:20 +0100
              Re: Open source Atheros wifi? (ath10k) Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-01-18 08:00 +0100
            Re: Open source Atheros wifi? (ath10k) didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com> - 2021-01-17 10:00 +0100
      Re: Open source Atheros wifi? (ath10k) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-01-16 21:00 +0100
        Re: Open source Atheros wifi? (ath10k) Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-01-17 21:20 +0100
          Re: Open source Atheros wifi? (ath10k) Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-01-18 08:20 +0100
            Re: Open source Atheros wifi? (ath10k) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-01-18 10:30 +0100
      Re: Open source Atheros wifi? (ath10k) Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2021-01-16 21:50 +0100
    Re: Open source Atheros wifi? (ath10k) Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2021-01-17 02:50 +0100
      Re: Open source Atheros wifi? (ath10k) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-01-17 10:20 +0100
  Re: Open source Atheros wifi? (ath10k) Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-01-16 22:50 +0100

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