Tuesday, 4 August 2016, 17:45:39 UTC+3 kelo wrote: > anyone knows a solution to get it working somehow with this specific dell xps > 15 wirless card the > Broadcom BCM43602 . Im not an expert with anything terminal related.
Broadcom wireless cards always require proprietary closed drivers, which are probably not just full of backdoors but also contain a lot of badly written code with security vulnerabilities and bugs. Their hardware is not good either... maybe Broadcom could be acceptable for Windows users, but it really sucks for Linux ! At the same time, wireless cards of Atheros ath9k family - are running on 100% open source drivers, and giving a quite good quality/power of signal. https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Atheros <--- from this list, I recommend Atheros AR9462, it is the best card of ath9k family - supports 2.4GHz & 5GHz WiFi networking, as well as Bluetooth 4.0 . It works flawlessly with QubesOS, I have tested it. AR9462 could be received from AliExpress or eBay for less than $10, shipping included, so there are no reasons to continue struggling with low end Broadcom card - that was shipped with your laptop only because it was among the cheapest options for laptop's manufacturer (only a few people care about preinstalled wireless cards, so the manufacturers are usually going for the cheapest offer, which is often Broadcom) The only catch there is: your manufacturer could have installed a WiFi card whitelist in your BIOS, which prevents booting your computer if non-listed wireless card has been found. However, it is possible to mod your BIOS file and break this artificial limitation - either by removing whitelist completely, or disabling a check for it, or altering the whitelist to replace device IDs of whitelisted WiFi card with device ID of your new WiFi card. Luckily, there are already a lot of BIOS'es with whitelist removed, available at bios-mods site and other websites, so if your laptop's model is relatively popular - you are likely to find that someone already did that work for you. Also, in some lucky cases, your laptop is supported by Coreboot or Libreboot project - which do not contain any whitelists, and could replace the manufacturer's BIOS... >From what I see online, XPS 9550 does not have any WiFi card whitelist. Good >for you ;) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/b6b93015-e9bf-4d60-9d2c-f01dcddc81aa%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
