EVGA Z77 Stinger (mITX)

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Zancudo
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Iscritto: 09/19/2012

producer:
http://www.evga.com/Products/Product.aspx?pn=111-IB-E692-KR

review:
http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Motherboards/EVGA-Z77-Stinger-mini-ITX-Motherboard-Review

the review says that this motherboard comes with an Atheros bluetooth adapter onboard. should this work with Trisquel and free drivers?

miga
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Iscritto: 09/17/2011

As far as I'm aware, Atheros bluetooth chipsets do not work with free software, as they require proprietary firmware.

sphynx
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Iscritto: 11/30/2011

The only Atheros bluetooth thing listed in h-node.org doesn't: http://h-node.org/bluetooth/catalogue/en/1/1/Atheros

Chris

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Iscritto: 04/23/2011

I believe there are only a few Bluetooth chipsets from Atheros available and these include the: AR3001, AR3002, AR3011, and AR3012. All of these use the ath3k driver/firmware. The driver is free software friendly although the firmware is not.

I would suggest avoiding boards with Atheros bluetooth for the moment. Although this is less of a concern than getting a board with say an NVIDIA/ATI graphics chipset. Atheros has been very cooperative in releasing code whereas NVIDIA/AMD have not (at least not sufficient code/specs). The majority of companies do not release source code for firmware.

Until we can get Atheros to release the source code to this firmware I'd suggest getting a USB dongle with a CSR chipset. This is fully supported in GNU/Linux (and free software friendly).

https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-usb-bluetooth-micro-adapter