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Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter

From moxalt <moxalt@riseup.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter
Date 2015-10-30 07:30 +0100
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On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 12:53:10 -0400 (EDT), Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com>
wrote:

> It may have, but the proprietary software is unnecessary if you use 
> archlinux to install it and get it up and running.

It doesn't matter what distribution of GNU/Linux you use- if there is no free
firmware available for the device, there is no free firmware available for the
device. wpa_supplicant is just a program used to authenticate with
WPA-encrypted networks over a wireless LAN interface. It still requires
underlying firmware for the operating system to be able to control the device.

The reason it worked out of the box in Arch is because the Arch kernel is
mainline Linux, which has proprietary blobs, unlike Debian's de-blobbed kernel
or Linux-libre.

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Suitable USB WiFi Adapter Tim McDonough <tmcdonough@gmail.com> - 2015-10-28 21:10 +0100
  Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se> - 2015-10-28 22:10 +0100
  Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2015-10-28 23:50 +0100
    Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-10-29 00:10 +0100
  Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-10-28 23:50 +0100
    Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2015-10-29 02:00 +0100
      Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-10-29 03:20 +0100
        Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter Tim McDonough <tmcdonough@gmail.com> - 2015-10-29 05:10 +0100
        Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2015-10-30 05:00 +0100
      Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter Safwat <softwatt@gmx.com> - 2015-10-29 16:40 +0100
  Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter moxalt <moxalt@riseup.net> - 2015-10-29 06:10 +0100
    Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2015-10-29 06:30 +0100
      Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter Tim McDonough <tmcdonough@gmail.com> - 2015-10-29 13:50 +0100
        Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI <renaud@olgiati-in-paraguay.org> - 2015-10-29 14:50 +0100
          Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se> - 2015-10-29 16:30 +0100
            Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2015-10-29 18:00 +0100
              Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter moxalt <moxalt@riseup.net> - 2015-10-30 07:30 +0100
        Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2015-10-29 17:30 +0100
          Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter Tim McDonough <tmcdonough@gmail.com> - 2015-10-29 19:10 +0100
      Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se> - 2015-10-29 17:40 +0100
        Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter Robert Crawford <webguytx@gmail.com> - 2015-10-29 17:50 +0100
    Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-10-29 06:30 +0100
      Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter moxalt <moxalt@riseup.net> - 2015-10-29 10:00 +0100
        Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2015-10-29 16:40 +0100
          Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-10-29 17:00 +0100
          Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2015-10-29 18:00 +0100
          Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter moxalt <moxalt@riseup.net> - 2015-10-30 07:20 +0100
  Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2015-10-29 17:40 +0100
    Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter Tim McDonough <tmcdonough@gmail.com> - 2015-10-31 01:50 +0100
    Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2015-11-03 18:00 +0100
      Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2015-11-04 11:40 +0100

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