I was thinking of getting a wifi card like that, but can’t seem to find any.
Intel ax210 worked good for me so far, but i don’t know if there are software blobs since everything worked from the get go without needing to install anything
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.
that’s funny because my (wired) ISP router already has this problem, I can’t use ssh without setting IPQoS=0
ath9k supports N, so I’d consider it modern at least, since I think the vast majority of the population still use it.
Even if so, it would likely still have proprietary blobs, just embedded into a ROM or flash chip on the card. Personally, I’d rather have firmware loaded at runtime over hard-coded, at least then the blob is able to be reverse engineered possibly.
I got an Atheros card, which is fine for WiFi on Debian 12 and was cheap to buy. Drivers were in the Debian foss repo. Bluetooth is not working on it though. Interestingly, the Bluetooth did work under PureOS but I never figured out why.
Interestingly, the Bluetooth did work under PureOS but I never figured out why.
The bluetooth probably needs a non-free firmware blob, as most of them do.
You could always get an Ethernet-connected AP. This will allow you to use the latest WiFi but not compromise your OS.
