There are no free #Linux kernel drivers for contemporary Wi-Fi hardware. Tell Qualcomm, Inc. to release fully-free drivers for its in-production Wi-Fi chipsets, just as it\'s predecessor, Atheros, did sixteen years ago: u.fsf.org/475

Jun 22, 2025 · 3:45 PM UTC

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I haven't seen a laptop with a qualcomm wifi chip in it in decades. It's all intel and occasionally a AMD (=mediatek) chip if it's got a AMD APU. "Smart"phones have Qualcomm chips, but you can't easily replace the kernel/firmware there anyway (which is a far greater problem imho)
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We have to redo wifi chipsets ourselves, with cheap FPGAs.
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