Talk page - wifi card Atheros Communications Inc. AR9462 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
Atheros AR9462 supported by ath9k free software driver
by myself600, 11:36, 14 January 2013
Hello! Your wireless card IS free software compatible, it just require Linux 3.2 or newer (Trisquel 5.5 uses Linux-libre 3.0) to work. From the description you provided I assume you are tested this chip inside a Live CD environment, so I recommend you to try the latest development builds of Trisquel 6.0 "Toutatis" available from the following link and make a report again. http://devel.trisquel.info/makeiso/iso Have a nice day!
Not 100% free software friendly at this time
by chris, 00:58, 22 June 2013
There is an associated chipset on these cards that is dependent on non-free firmware. It shows up with lsusb as it is a USB chipset. lsusb will show: Bus 001 Device 004: ID 04ca:3006 Lite-On Technology Corp. It depends on the ath3k driver (needs patched to work- will report deblob'd message in 3.5 and probably 3.9 jxself linux-libre kernel) and its non-free firmware.
Works fine without nonfree blobs
by lg, 11:42, 13 August 2022
Just tested on Hyperbola GNU+Linux-libre (Kernel 5.10).
That isn't accurate
by chris, 14:47, 13 August 2022
The wifi does not require blobs, but the bluetooth chipset does. The reason the bluetooth is working for you is because the firmware was uploaded when you booted or someone booted a proprietary OS.
Lots of inaccurate info on h-node
by chris, 14:52, 13 August 2022
Unfortunately there is a lot of inaccurate information on h-node and even as someone whose experienced with testing and vetting hardware properly even I can error on occasion. The FSF's RYF program is a better solution as it relies less on inexperienced individuals and more on actually looking at chips and through source code for proprietary bits. Unfortunately none of this is going to matter soon enough. There are no recent chipsets that are freedom friendly and there doesn't appear to be any hope of it either for a variety of reasons. The war was lost even if we should continue fighting as best we can. Sadly not enough people care and there is not enough money going toward trying to really fix these issues. A database listing what is free and actually getting code released are two entirely different things and as it stands all we have is a bunch of aging chipsets and little recent particularly in the arena of wifi and bluetooth that is recent.

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