It’s safe to assume that Google, Yahoo, and other major Internet companies were not thrilled when the NSA began demanding that they hand over users’ da ...

A review/rant about the progress that free software wireless drivers (especially on Linux) have made over the recent years, as well as the current challenges that driver developers (and users) are facing. Felix Fietkau

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A review/rant about the progress that free software wireless drivers (especially on Linux) have made over the recent years, as well as th...

I decided to start writing about the day-to-day obstacles we face at NEPA Fiber. Before I begin to make regular write ups on our progress, I feel it's necessary to explain the backstory of how it all began and where we are now. Why? The first time I put some

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Whonix is a desktop operating system designed for advanced security and privacy. It realistically addresses attacks while maintaining usability. It makes online anonymity possible via fail-safe, automatic, and desktop-wide use of the Tor network. A heavily reconfigured Debian base is run inside multiple virtual machines, providing a substantial layer of protection from malware and IP leaks.

For some years, OpenWrt has arguably
been the most active router-oriented distribution.
Things changed in May of last year, though, when a group of OpenWrt
developers split off to form the competing
LEDE project. While the LEDE
developers have been busy, the project has yet to make its first release.
That situation is about to change, though, as evidenced by the LEDE v17.01.0-rc1 release candidate, which
came out on February 1.

You seem to imply the router you chose (Archer C7) only makes use of the ath9k driver, which is not the case for the 5GHz bands. Atheros 802.11ac chipsets use a driver (misleadingly) named ath10k. Ath10k is not a driver that has evolved from ath9k as the name suggests, it's a very different driver that needs a binary blob to work properly.

As a result, some of ath9k's makewififast patches cannot be implemented in ath10k. Some TP-Link routers use Atheros 802.11n chipsets and therefore ath9k exclusively. For those wanting to have a completely FOSS router with LEDE, I would recommend the model TL-WDR3600.

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