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Install Atheros Wi-Fi firmware from Trisquel

Sunil Mohan Adapa requested to merge SunilMohanAdapa:wifi-firmware into master

Created by: SunilMohanAdapa

This patch fetches Wi-Fi firmware from Trisquel into FreedomBox. This is not ideal, however, we seem to have following options for proper Atheros Wi-Fi firmware:

  • Properly package it for Debian. I think the source package currently has 100+ MiB of sources with possibly gcc/binutils sources and patches on it. This is not likely to be allowed by Debian as duplication of gcc/binutils sources.
  • Mainline the patches on gcc/binutils. Then building package into Debian will become possible. This could potentially be very large effort.
  • Use the non-free Debian package for Atheros firmware. This also pull other non-free firmware. And FreedomBox will get labeled as non-free for all our images.
  • Use the package from external sources such as from Trisquel, ThinkPenguin website or from QCA. Trisquel seems to be the best option among those. This means that we are no longer Debian only, we are Debian + a package from outside. This seems to be the least undesirable option for now.

PS: This patch is only partially tested.

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