Re: [libreplanet-discuss] What is ThinkPenguin?

[Dmitry Alexandrov]

On 27/05/16 02:51, Adam Bolte wrote:
> 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".

Thanks for first-hand information.  There is indeed no firmware 
available (not speaking of free but even no legally redistributable!) 
for AR9462 that works with Bluetooth.   At least, I believe that if 
there were one, it would be certainly included in Linux® (vanilla) along 
with many others non-free firmwares, but it is not [0].

I’m pretty curious, how did thinkpenguin.com explain themselves when you 
asked them?

[0] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1394368