Luke T. Shumaker on Nostr: #FOSSY bkuhn said that there are no #freesoftware wifi drivers for 5GHz, but ...
#FOSSY bkuhn said that there are no #freesoftware wifi drivers for 5GHz, but that's... not true? We have no free drivers for newer wifis, but 'a', 'g', and 'n' can all use 5GHz, and with #linuxlibre I'm connected just fine to the normal FOSSY wifi (using 'n', I think).
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