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Are there any modern wifi cards that work with Linux and have 100% FOSS drivers (no proprietary binary blobs)?

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I was thinking of getting a wifi card like that, but can’t seem to find any.

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Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
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refalo@programming.dev
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Atheros ath9k (and previously ath5k) has been 100% FOSS for many years.

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compcube@lemy.lol
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Yes, but does that still count as “modern”?

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refalo@programming.dev
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ath9k supports N, so I’d consider it modern at least, since I think the vast majority of the population still use it.

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notthebees@reddthat.com
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I personally don’t recommend the ath9k cards. There are a handful of routers they do not work with. You’ll have to disable QoS to stop the packet drops.

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refalo@programming.dev
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that’s funny because my (wired) ISP router already has this problem, I can’t use ssh without setting IPQoS=0

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