> You'd be extremely lucky to get this delivered to you by tomorrow.
Scan and Ebuyer both do next day if ordered before 17:00/18:00 respectively,
hence why I wanted to know if they have a compatible one in stock.
(Everything I'd seen at that point suggested it being an Intel issue, not an
almost-everything-except-Atheros one.)
> using an OS that includes those firmware blobs in the meantime if you must
There is no meantime - tomorrow is "here's your machine, all setup and ready
to go".
Without any compatible USB adapters from a store that does next day (and more
than 30 seconds of uninterrupted time to actually have any chance of
checking/ordering), I have to choose between options 1 and 3, which I'm
pretty sure means not using Trisquel. :(
This is particularly annoying since I've already spent a long evening setting
things up and I'll now have to repeat that tonight.
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From a more general perspective, I'd like to understand what causes the need
for non-trivial firmware for wireless adapters.
Obviously there is more involved than just IEEE 802.11 compliance or there'd
just be firmware for each variant of that standard, so I'm curious what else
is involved...?
