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Re:Liberating Wi-Fi on the ESP32 [video] by rkagerer on Friday December 27, 2024 @09:54PM (#42528184)
How is progress toward a useable open source alternative?
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Re:Liberating Wi-Fi on the ESP32 [video] by AlotOfReading on Friday December 27, 2024 @10:37PM (#42528360)
Virtually non-existent? There aren't that many people doing open RF hardware, and all of the ones I'm familiar with are working with SDR because the costs go up massively once you go to tapeout.
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Re:Liberating Wi-Fi on the ESP32 [video] by ryao on Saturday December 28, 2024 @01:35AM (#42529081)
I am not sure if you can still get the chips, but these are fully OSS:

https://github.com/qca/open-ath9k-htc-firmware

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