Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Q

[Joaquín Cuéllar]

In fact, for the future :-D

I think all Intel wifi cards  (also bluetooth) needs a propietary
firmware to run, (I can be wrong here! :-D)

A good place for searching also is:
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/

with your model you can go to the driver page. (iwlwifi, ipw2100,
etc.) and see the firmware needed.

Normally drivers are now free, as Radeon or Nouveau for graphic cards,
but they need a binary firmware, a small portion to be executed by the
Linux Kernel to fully work.

What I do is look for my model there, take note of the driver, go to
the driver page and download the firmware .tar.gz, then, look for it's
license. When it's closed it says something as: "Your soul is my
propierty and you can do nothing at all, or something like that"
for example:

[...]
Copyright (c) 2006-2008, Intel Corporation.
All rights reserved.

Redistribution.  Redistribution and use in binary form, without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
met:
[...]

The best, normally, are the Atheros Wifi cards, other option would be
savage an old one from other computer, and try to change your pci
intel card for the new one. It's true that not always it's possible as
BIOS can block some wifi models to be recognised.

A hard world this :-)
cheers!

2019-10-06 17:08 GMT+02:00, tom lukeywood <address@hidden>:
> "don’t know if what I’m asking is something entirely wrong, at least in
>> this place."
> Of course not we are here to help! (although I think to keep FSF
> certification the gnewsense devs can not promote the use of non-free
> software and it somewhat defeats the point of the project.)
>
> According to h-node your wifi card does not currently have free firmware
> available:
> https://h-node.org/search/results/en/1/search/wifi/3165
>
> but you can get USB Wi-Fi cards (this one worked well for me) that do:
> https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-wireless-n-usb-adapter-gnu-linux-tpe-n150usb
>
> I have been told that you can find the above Wi-Fi card cheaper on eBay if
> you just search the model number directly, but think-penguin will give good
> customer support regarding it working with free software if your not too
> tech savvy.
>
> "I really want to try the distro and this is the hardware I have and no
> other."
> Feel free to ask me more questions if you get stuck.
>
> --
>   tom lukeywood
>   address@hidden
>
> On Sat, 5 Oct 2019, at 6:15 PM, Andy M. Cabriales wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I am thinking to migrate my laptop to gNewSense but I have a concern
>> with my wifi card.
>> It’s an Intel Wireless AC-3165 rev 79.
>> I have been trying some versions of Ubuntu/Debian before but despite
>> seeing people being able to get it working, I never been able to do so.
>>
>> I am also aware about the gNewSense and proprietary software, so I
>> don’t know if what I’m asking is something entirely wrong, at least in
>> this place.
>>
>> I’m looking forward to hear from you.
>>
>> I really want to try the distro and this is the hardware I have and no
>> other.
>>
>> Thank you all in advance,
>>
>> A
>>
>>
>>
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