Maybe it's Eyesaline

Genuinely curious about this: If you're a Guix user, how are you doing WiFi?

Guix is aggressively pro-Free Software, so it ships with zero proprietary blobs, which means you have no networking out of the box on many machines.

Boosts appreciated.

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Using hardware with open drivers (ex. Atheros)
14.3%
Using unofficial / self-compiled kernel
46.4%
Running Guix on top of another distro with blobs
3.6%
See answers / other (please reply)
35.7%
Poll ended at .
Sep 16, 2022 at 3:57pmPinafore
Show threadMaybe it's EyesalineSep 16, 2022
Is there even a fully open modern WiFi chipset? Ath9k is a/b/g/n, the newer 10k (ac) and 11k (ax) both need blobs.
Show thread~robbySep 16, 2022
@ieure I voted "using self compiled kernel" but I also run Guix on other distros with blobs.
Show threadMaybe it's EyesalineSep 16, 2022
@robby Are you using https://github.com/guix-users/guix-nonfree or something else?
GitHub - guix-users/guix-nonfree: Unofficial collection of packages that are not going to be accepted in to guix

Unofficial collection of packages that are not going to be accepted in to guix - guix-users/guix-nonfree

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Show threadMaybe it's EyesalineSep 16, 2022
@robby I guess https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix is the right thing.
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Show thread~robbySep 16, 2022
@ieure Yeah I'm using nonguix for the mainline kernel.

I actually needed to build an installation iso with the mainline kernel for one of my machines, since it actually needs proprietary blobs for ethernet too.
Show threadtech? no! man, see...Sep 16, 2022
@ieure missing option: very long ethernet cable
Show threadf3n1xSep 28, 2022
@technomancy @ieure that's how i do... for now, asa #guix newbie
Show threadAn AgoraSep 28, 2022
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https://anagora.org/guix
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Show thread(car '(potato lisper))Sep 16, 2022
@ieure I have osbooted Thinkpad x230. It works like charm
Show threadMaybe it's EyesalineSep 16, 2022
@potato_lisper I'm not sure what that has to do with the question. Are you using that to eliminate the stock BIOS' hardware allowlist? If so, what hardware are you using?
Show thread(car '(potato lisper))Sep 16, 2022
@ieure sorry, to clarify, my thinkpad has replaced wifi card and bios stack that is compatible with GNU guidlines, so for Guix everything works out of box.
Show threadMaybe it's EyesalineSep 16, 2022
@potato_lisper Okay, thanks. What WiFi card, and how well does it work? Ath9k?
Show thread(car '(potato lisper))Sep 16, 2022
@ieure Yes, this one. It works, it's not the fastest (802.11bgn), but don't have any problem with it.
Show threadDead Ninjatrappeur, migrated to @[email protected]Sep 16, 2022
@ieure I use the nonguix kernel.

Setting that kernel up together with the nongnu binary cache was far from being a trivial operation for a Guix newbie like me. It easily took me a couple of hour worth of fiddling.

I wish there was a more integrated solution for to setup a system populated with linux-firware.
Show threadDanny O'BSep 17, 2022
@ieure i ticked "unofficial kernel", but just to note that non-guix has a substitute server so you don't need to compile it's unofficialness
Show threadMaybe it's EyesalineSep 17, 2022
@mala Oh, that's nice. Last time I tried Guix, that wasn't the case, and I spent hours rebuilding kernels.