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Stop chasing everything. Stop and give me true open source repos for the Wi-Fi chips and drivers so the already well-established community can care for my route
by 1970-01-01 2mo ago
Stop chasing everything. Stop and give me true open source repos for the Wi-Fi chips and drivers so the already well-established community can care for my router for the next 20 years. Force this into the spec.
https://wireless.docs.kernel.org/en/latest/en/users/drivers.html https://wireless.docs.kernel.org/en/latest/en/users/drivers....
- dingaling 2mo agoUnfortunately ( for the WiFi Alliance ) that doesn't sell new kit.
- BatteryMountain 2mo agoEven Intel is doing a poor job with firmwares. Its been such a pain lately to deal with them (WIFI, LAN, CAMERA). Its no longer just plug and play.
- ckocagil 2mo agoAre you talking about router firmware or NIC drivers? There's a slim chance of vendors opening drivers, but firmware is never going to happen.
- ValdikSS 2mo agoThere's only 1 (one) all-open chip I know of: ath9k ar9271 802.11n 2.4 GHz from 2011. Atheros (now Qualcomm) released its firmware source: https://github.com/qca/open-ath9k-htc-firmware https://github.com/qca/open-ath9k-htc-firmware I have many, many these dongles :)
- fithisux 2mo agoWiFi should be like Bluetooth. One stack with generic drivers.
- ValdikSS 2mo agoYeah, somehow nobody invented HCI for Wi-Fi chips. USB has it, Bluetooth has it, but not Wi-Fi.