== USB Wi-Fi == !FreedomBox works on many single board computers. However, many of these boards do not have built-in Wi-Fi capabilities. Even when Wi-Fi capability is available, non-free proprietary firmware is required to make them work. A solution to the problem is to plug-in a USB Wi-Fi device into one of the available USB ports. There are many such devices available which do not require non-free firmware to work. The following is a list of such devices that work with !FreedomBox devices. Some devices based on these chips have tested to work well with !FreedomBox including functions such as access point mode. * [[https://wikidevi.com/wiki/AR7010|Devices with Atheros AR7010 chip]] * [[https://wikidevi.com/wiki/AR9271|Devices with Atheros AR9271 chip]] === Firmware Installation === The free firmware for these devices is not packaged in Debian yet. You can manually download and install the firmware as follows: {{{ sudo su [enter password] cd /lib/firmware wget https://www.thinkpenguin.com/files/ath9k-htc/version-1.4-beta/htc_9271.fw wget https://www.thinkpenguin.com/files/ath9k_firmware_free-version/htc_7010.fw }}} === Resources === * [[WiFi#USB_Devices|Debian Wiki on WiFi drivers]] * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open-source_wireless_drivers#Linux_drivers_for_802.11_.22wireless.22|Wikipedia: Comparison of open-source Linux wireless network drivers]] * [[https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Main_Page|WikiDevi: database of computer hardware]] ## END_INCLUDE <> ---- CategoryFreedomBox