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How would you go about getting blobless WiFi on a Framework laptop? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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My goal is a blobless Linux Framework laptop, but AFAIK there are no open source drivers for the included AMD RZ616 WiFi card. What would you do, replace that it a different M.2 card? Do any blobless ones exist? Any recommendations?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Yeah I've had the same bad experiences, it connects fine to my home wifi, but my uni wifi will take forever to connect, and then randomly disconnect every few minutes.

I did manually set the wifi country (in wpa_supplicant) today, and it seemed stable so far, but I'll probably just end up swapping it with an Intel one like you did.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I've had very similar problems with Uni wifi on Linux as well (eduroam), but this guy's solution fixed it. I don't think it's specific to the wifi adapter, since I've had this issue on an intel wifi card.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

From what I understand, the AMD WLAN modules are provided by mediatek. They've actually gotten a bit better with Linux support over time but procuring Windows drivers for them is bizarre.

Not to blame MT here. AMD should probably do a better job of supporting these modules since they're branded as such.