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Signed-off-by: James Valleroy <jvalleroy@mailbox.org> Reviewed-by: Sunil Mohan Adapa <sunil@medhas.org>
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== USB Wi-Fi ==
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!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.
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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.
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* [[https://wikidevi.com/wiki/AR7010|Devices with Atheros AR7010 chip]]
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* [[https://wikidevi.com/wiki/AR9271|Devices with Atheros AR9271 chip]]
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=== Firmware Installation ===
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The free firmware for these devices is not packaged in Debian yet. You can manually download and install the firmware as follows:
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{{{
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sudo su [enter password]
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cd /lib/firmware
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wget https://www.thinkpenguin.com/files/ath9k-htc/version-1.4-beta/htc_9271.fw
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wget https://www.thinkpenguin.com/files/ath9k_firmware_free-version/htc_7010.fw
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}}}
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=== Resources ===
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* [[WiFi#USB_Devices|Debian Wiki on WiFi drivers]]
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* [[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]]
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* [[https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Main_Page|WikiDevi: database of computer hardware]]
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## END_INCLUDE
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<<Include(FreedomBox/Portal)>>
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----
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CategoryFreedomBox
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