On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 07:30:16PM +0000, Brian wrote: > On Sat 16 Jan 2021 at 18:27:58 +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 01:19:21PM -0500, Steven Mainor wrote: > > > My main concern for the laptop in question is security. So from a security > > > standpoint, what is the difference between using a wifi card with built in > > > closed source firmware, and closed source firmware that is loaded by the > > > kernel like ath10k. Either way the firmware is only running on the card, > > > Not > > > the CPU, correct? > > > > > > > There's a thread going on in debian-devel mailing list at the moment > > on more or less exactly the problem of getting wifi to work for > > nonfree firmware. > > See > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2021/01/msg00151.html > > Very informative. > > > You may find that the firmware-atheros package from non-free in Debian > > will do the trick. You may need to put the .deb onto a USB stick. I > > can't quite remember whether the installer including the non-free > > firmware CD includes firmware-atheros by default but > > It does include it. > > > that's found at > > https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/debian-10.7.0-amd64-netinst.iso > > That isn't the non-free, unofficial installer. >
As ever, you realise your mistake as soon as you've made it: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/ will point you to it: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/10.7.0+nonfree/amd64/iso-cd/firmware-10.7.0-amd64-netinst.iso https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware is the page giving full details. All best, as ever, Andy C. > -- > Brian. >
