Intel wireless firmaware blob

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odl
odl
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Hello,

when I booted the Trisquel 3.0 ISO and ran dmesg, I saw a few *DEBLOBBED* messages from the Intel wireless driver. My card is an Intel 4965.
Now, does that mean that I won’t be able to use that card at all, even if I put the firmware blob into /lib/firmware?

Another question: I’m very much interested in a) the Mini edition of Trisquel and b) full-disk encryption at install time. Is any of those going to be out soon? I. e. should I wait with installing?

Thanks in advance for any answers.

djbclark
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name at domain wrote:
> Hello,
>
> when I booted the Trisquel 3.0 ISO and ran dmesg, I saw a few
> *DEBLOBBED* messages from the Intel wireless driver. My card is an Intel
> 4965.
> Now, does that mean that I won’t be able to use that card at all, even
> if I put the firmware blob into /lib/firmware?
>
> Another question: I’m very much interested in a) the Mini edition of
> Trisquel and b) full-disk encryption at install time. Is any of those
> going to be out soon? I. e. should I wait with installing?
>
> Thanks in advance for any answers.

If you are interested in running Trisquel, I'd suggest replacing your
intel card with a rtl8187, ath5k, or ath9k card; you could in theory do
something like replace the Trisquel -libre linux with upstream's
packages, but that would sort of defeat part of the purpose of running a
free-as-in-freedom GNU/Linux distribution, and on a practical level
break automatic updates.

I believe the linux-libre changes are complete enough that just putting
blobs in the expected places would not in fact cause them to be loaded
(because we don't want to tell users they "should" or "must" install
nonfree firmware); but you can research this yourself at
http://linux-libre.fsfla.org/ , or perhaps someone else can provide a
canonical answer.

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odl
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Thanks for your answer. Are any of the cards you suggested MiniPCIe cards? Last time I checked (about a year ago) there was no MiniPCIe wifi card that was supported by free drivers.

djbclark
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name at domain wrote:
> Thanks for your answer. Are any of the cards you suggested MiniPCIe
> cards? Last time I checked (about a year ago) there was no MiniPCIe wifi
> card that was supported by free drivers.

Searching for "mini pci express atheros 802.11n" on ebay brings up
several results. Based on a quick google search, the AR5008 based card
is ath9k compatible.

Keep in mind that some laptop manufactures have a whitelist of cards
that are allowed to be used in their systems, so you'll want to check up
on that for your specific computer.

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in0giro
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i believe something like this should work with the ath9k driver:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?
ViewItem&item=290372595231&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

peace, w

On Dec 11, 2009, at 1:00 PM, name at domain wrote:

> Thanks for your answer. Are any of the cards you suggested MiniPCIe
> cards? Last time I checked (about a year ago) there was no MiniPCIe
> wifi card that was supported by free drivers.
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