> I think it's ironic
Apologies, on second thought this was poor wording. It's not ironic,
merely an oversight. We all believe in the success of free software, and
I don't mean to question anyone's values or allegiance for wanting to
serve users by tackling the most evident problems.
I concede I'm biased as its maintainer, but I think it's ironic that
non-free firmware is about to have better support than the flagship
libre wireless firmware. I'm referring to open-ath9k-htc-firmware, which
if you're not familiar, is the firmware for the most prominent USB
wireless adapters
> We don't ship udebs for firmware. So please discuss first how this
> s[h]ould work
I presumed a udeb was necessary for it to be usable during installation. If
it's not needed, that's good to hear and I guess I'll hold off.
If that's because the ordinary .deb is suitable (it conforms to udeb
It's going to take a while for me to figure out how to incorporate it into the
installer for Bookworm, but just because it's otherwise ready I'm thinking of
doing an upload of firmware-ath9k-htc adding a udeb.
I've seen in some places the docs mention adding a -udeb suffix, but other
places
On Thursday, December 31, 2020 10:53:30 AM EST Steve McIntyre wrote:
> Right. I'm more asking whether it's useful to try and pull this in for
> all arches, or just for amd64 / i386 for now.
I guess the majority of users are on amd64/i386 systems, but as the firmware
is for USB devices it would be
I've committed a rudimentary udeb in Git at
https://salsa.debian.org/jscott/open-ath9k-htc-firmware.git
for which I would appreciate feedback. Does the d-i freeze coming up in a
couple weeks mean this may not clear NEW in time for Bullseye?
If so, no biggie. Here's the gist of what it installs:
On Wednesday, December 23, 2020 9:52:16 AM EST Steve McIntyre wrote:
> Is this just going to be for x86 machines, or is it likely to be useful for
> ~everybody?
It will be useful for all architectures, except I don't think there are
FreeBSD and Hurd drivers yet, but it's an arch:all package
Ping :). AR9271 dominates modern free-software-friendly wireless dongles and I
would love to see their support in Bullseye. Please let me know if I can help.
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firmware-ath9k-htc includes firmware for some of the few Wi-Fi USB
dongles that work without non-free software. In particular, all dongles
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