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I just mentioned this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24294868

The device is exposed over USB as a composite device, consisting of a virtual Ethernet port and a virtual serial port. Network communications may happen over that link, as well as SSH/SCP'ing files.

It also supports USB OTG, so one could plug in a libre-compatible Wi-Fi card and use that. Or, if one doesn't mind throwing their freedom under a bus, one could use the proprietary driver.



So there’s a proprietary Wi-Fi driver for Linux? The way it read I thought that was just out completely.




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