On Monday, January 9, 2017 at 5:14:11 PM UTC, [email protected] wrote: > Tuesday, 4 August 2016, 17:45:39 UTC+3 kelo wrote: > > anyone knows a solution to get it working somehow with this specific dell > > xps 15 wirless card the > > Broadcom BCM43602 . Im not an expert with anything terminal related. > > Broadcom wireless cards always require proprietary closed drivers, which are > probably not just full of backdoors but also contain a lot of badly written > code with security vulnerabilities and bugs. Their hardware is not good > either... maybe Broadcom could be acceptable for Windows users, but it really > sucks for Linux ! At the same time, wireless cards of Atheros ath9k family - > are running on 100% open source drivers, and giving a quite good > quality/power of signal. https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Atheros <--- from this > list, I recommend Atheros AR9462, it is the best card of ath9k family - > supports 2.4GHz & 5GHz WiFi networking, as well as Bluetooth 4.0 . It works > flawlessly with QubesOS, I have tested it. AR9462 could be received from > AliExpress or eBay for less than $10, shipping included, so there are no > reasons to continue struggling with low end Broadcom card - that was shipped > with your laptop only because it was among the cheapest options for laptop's > manufacturer (only a few people care about preinstalled wireless cards, so > the manufacturers are usually going for the cheapest offer, which is often > Broadcom) > > The only catch there is: your manufacturer could have installed a WiFi card > whitelist in your BIOS, which prevents booting your computer if non-listed > wireless card has been found. However, it is possible to mod your BIOS file > and break this artificial limitation - either by removing whitelist > completely, or disabling a check for it, or altering the whitelist to replace > device IDs of whitelisted WiFi card with device ID of your new WiFi card. > Luckily, there are already a lot of BIOS'es with whitelist removed, available > at bios-mods site and other websites, so if your laptop's model is relatively > popular - you are likely to find that someone already did that work for you. > Also, in some lucky cases, your laptop is supported by Coreboot or Libreboot > project - which do not contain any whitelists, and could replace the > manufacturer's BIOS... > > From what I see online, XPS 9550 does not have any WiFi card whitelist. Good > for you ;)
Thank you very much for that advice! I've ordered a AR9462. Estimated delivery 27 Jan 2017 - 16 Mar 2017! The 9550 actually comes with a "Killer 1535 802.11ac 2x2 WiFi and Bluetooth 4.1". -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/324ffbc2-9b58-43fb-95d0-91f3c8ea39d3%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
