From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pierre Neidhardt Subject: Re: Installation: Load non-free wifi firmware (iwlwifi) Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2018 11:44:00 +0530 Message-ID: <87bmfclm1j.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87r2p2xudf.fsf@gmail.com> <87po3slnvb.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36518) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ezyuv-0004M7-5j for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Mar 2018 02:14:10 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ezyus-0000Gt-0g for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Mar 2018 02:14:09 -0400 Received: from mail-pf0-x22c.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400e:c00::22c]:43730) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ezyur-0000GY-QQ for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Mar 2018 02:14:05 -0400 Received: by mail-pf0-x22c.google.com with SMTP id j2so6280910pff.10 for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2018 23:14:05 -0700 (PDT) In-reply-to: <87po3slnvb.fsf@gmail.com> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Chris Marusich Cc: help-guix --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain > "The trouble with firmware" by Jake Edge, January 5, 2011 > https://lwn.net/Articles/421680/ Interesting article. I share similar views and I believe that making proprietary code hard to proliferate is laudable. See the GPL license. I'm not completely convince how Linux-libre would work towards that end though. That said, I'm now stuck with an iwlwifi card and I have to live with that much backward practices. > As Ludo mentioned elsewhere, using a dongle is one good option. What > prevents you from using a dongle? A nit, really, but I have an rather extreme life-style that pushes me to travel as lightweight as possible. A dongle is not much for sure, but if I can I'd rather avoid it. The other issue is that when I initially wrote this e-mail I could not buy one and could not even order online. Not a problem anymore for now. Being even more picky, dongles have drawbacks: - They occupy a USB port (I have only 2). - They stick out... :p > https://minifree.org/ Thanks for the link, I did not know about it. Very nice initiative. I am now running the ultra-thin laptop Xiaomi Air 13, which, beside the non-free iwlwifi card, is an excellent piece of hardware in my opinion. Way ahead of the offers on minifree. I wish there would be something similar and a 100% free. Anyone aware of such a machine? -- Pierre Neidhardt --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEEUPM+LlsMPZAEJKvom9z0l6S7zH8FAlq3PigACgkQm9z0l6S7 zH8F0wf8DkuWniaaE+sqDl8vVr38VIIPMaYbc9BeRpwKtHqYbijITWST4m+1zfxt 2fd+qUZoomtoUVrRpgNLwv8uinF7lnqQs439CAQaG4cNIHzxejf/CPjGt7ikXhgW pPO8nKkgqbOA+3QQxcRYtudpoHJLRxSfrZ0hM0kpUsJOFm9Zl/XWrrDrRfLmfoyc axECQ9/nPX0Z2q32aR+nrsoV9nk+Mgs7z9JgiBp/Fx87P5c1+emqMy+BkelCkpjE Frh3jnU70J0aGk74rNn25bj7OUhwLa1C+zxUMrK5lU02EN71GqPPah12lNGrLJ9I TuAU0K/vJ9SRxhtG/NkHIa4+y9OfJw== =yg3V -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--