> Yes, the laptop card has free firmware: https://wiki.debian.org/ath9k https://wiki.debian.org/ath9k. No, it hasn't. You're confusing driver and firmware, aga

> Yes, the laptop card has free firmware: https://wiki.debian.org/ath9k https://wiki.debian.org/ath9k. No, it hasn't. You're confusing driver and firmware, again. What it has, and what you are showing me, is a free driver. The former is executed on the main processor of your computer, the second on the various chips of your card / device which can run various forms of code. The second can be loaded either from the main CPU (computer), or from some flash or some (P)ROM located on the board or directly inside the chips.