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It's the same wifi chipset as the official wifi dongle, the BCM43143 (source: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13825 https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13825).
by kingosticks 11y ago
It's the same wifi chipset as the official wifi dongle, the BCM43143 (source: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13825 https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13825).
This chipset is supported by the open-source brcmfmac driver is available from the brcm80211 module of the linux kernel package, maintained upstream by the linux kernel community (source https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx)
- dublinben 11y agoThat still relies on proprietary firmware on the actual chip itself.
- kingosticks 11y agoTrue: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/log/brcm/brcmfmac43143-sdio.bin http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-f... Either way, it's not really that interesting since you cannot boot the Rapsberry Pi without proprietary blobs anyway. I guess the important thing is that it'll work out out the box.
- lifeisstillgood 11y agoI did not know the whole could not boot without proprietary blobs - can you expand?