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. -- Brian.
