carl9170fw

The carl firmware at https://github.com/chunkeey/carl9170fw should put that argument to rest. That is Wifi firmware source code for the Wifi I currently use. Easily changed likely means there's a physical knob somewhere that you could accidentially poke as a layperson. Not that you get a three year CS education, figure out how your distribution packages dependencies, install the correct embedded toolchain (good luck), find out exactly which chip is in your device, fetch the proper firmware source code in the right version, build the thing, figure out how to flash the result onto the chip / read the Linux kernel sources to figure out the filename inside /lib/firmware. That's not easy. Even if this entire process was packaged (it is--see <https://packages.debian.org/sid/firmware-linux-free>), it probably still doesn't count (or at least sho

There are some old WiFi devices with libre firmware, but they only support old WiFi standards. https://github.com/qca/open-ath9k-htc-firmware https://github.com/chunkeey/carl9170fw http://netweb.ing.unibs.it/~openfwwf/ Some also call into the initial version of their code that is in the ROM, and don't have enough RAM to update all of the ROM to the current code. Things like the Osmocom Baseband code also do this. https://www.osmocom.org/projects/baseband/

Open source WiFi firmware exists btw: https://github.com/qca/open-ath9k-htc-firmware https://github.com/chunkeey/carl9170fw http://netweb.ing.unibs.it/~openfwwf/ None for recent WiFi standards though. Other open firmware: https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware/Open

There are some devices with open source firmware, so yes for some devices: https://github.com/chunkeey/carl9170fw/ https://github.com/qca/open-ath9k-htc-firmware http://netweb.ing.unibs.it/~openfwwf/

There are some cards with open source firmware, you might be able to modify it to do something like that. https://github.com/chunkeey/carl9170fw/ https://github.com/qca/open-ath9k-htc-firmware http://netweb.ing.unibs.it/~openfwwf/