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From: | Dmitry Alexandrov |
Subject: | Re: [libreplanet-discuss] What is ThinkPenguin? |
Date: | Fri, 27 May 2016 10:17:23 +0300 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; GNU x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.3.0 |
On 27/05/16 02:51, Adam Bolte wrote:
I brought the dual-band + bluetooth 4.0 M.2 card from them. The wifi was free software compatible, but the Bluetooth component required blobs to function - which had to be extracted from Windows drivers due to licensing issues. I believe this was the card: https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/wireless-n-dual-band-bluetooth-40-m2-ngff-combo-card This is despite the advertisement "Not dependent on NDISWrapper, binary blobs, or proprietary drivers-firmware".
Thanks for first-hand information. There is indeed no firmware available (not speaking of free but even no legally redistributable!) for AR9462 that works with Bluetooth. At least, I believe that if there were one, it would be certainly included in Linux® (vanilla) along with many others non-free firmwares, but it is not [0].
I’m pretty curious, how did thinkpenguin.com explain themselves when you asked them?
[0] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1394368
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