Re: [libreplanet-discuss] What is ThinkPenguin?

[Adam Bolte]

On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 08:16:27PM +0300, Dmitry Alexandrov wrote:
> On 26/05/16 13:41, Greg Wright wrote:
> As for USB wireless adapters — TPE-N150USB and TPE-N150USBL — they
> are based on Atheros AR9271 chipset, so firmware and drivers are
> meant to be included in your operating system distribution
> (GNU/Linux?) — for example in Trisquel we have
> ‘open-ath9k-htc-firmware’ package [1].

I brought the dual-band + bluetooth 4.0 M.2 card from them. The wifi
was free software compatible, but the Bluetooth component required
blobs to function - which had to be extracted from Windows drivers due
to licensing issues. I believe this was the card:

https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/wireless-n-dual-band-bluetooth-40-m2-ngff-combo-card

This is despite the advertisement "Not dependent on NDISWrapper,
binary blobs, or proprietary drivers-firmware".

So be careful and do your research. I use an external dongle for
Bluetooth on that particular computer now.

-Adam

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