Interesting post on Mastodon

[frtodd]

I saw an interesting post on mastodon this morning:

https://fosstodon.org/@danctnix/111701823196412037

It sounds like progress on the wifi driver, though I don't know what the near-term implications might be for end-users.

[Corconegre]

Fingers crossed!

[moobythegoldensock]

Essentially, instead of trying to hack together an old driver, the devs are now working directly with the company to implement a much better driver. Apparently, early tests have been promising and they’re hoping to eventually upstream it.

They’re currently testing it and if everything goes well, it’ll get pushed to end users pretty soon. Oh, and the new driver also has bluetooth support, though obviously wifi is the priority.

[Kevin Kofler]

If you want the driver right now, you can get the patches from the SailfishOS repo:
https://github.com/sailfish-on-dontbeevi...in/patches
but you will have to compile this stuff yourself.

The matching firmware is here:
https://github.com/sailfish-on-dontbeevi...e/main/rpm

But it should just be a matter of time for this to enter DanctNIX, given that it's Danct's work that SailfishOS is shipping there.

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Unfortunately, Bestechnic still has not fixed the licensing on txrx_opt.[ch]. With the current licensing on those files, there is no way this can go into the upstream Linux kernel.