cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21430107

I’m having trouble to find a bluetooth dongle at least 3.0 that needs no propietary firmware. It’s easy to find dongles advertised as linux compatible or users that claim that an specific brand works fine in linux, but the problem is that many of them are using propietary firmware without their users being aware because their distributions have already installed propietary drivers or firmwares, or ask users to install them and they just do it. I use debian main repository (without non-free software) in which I failed to make work a couple of linux compatible advertised dongles because debian ask me to install a propietary firmware. So if anyone knows for certain that some brand that needs no such a software in linux I’ll apreciate your help.

    • corvusOP
      4·
      10 hours ago

      I’m already using one that doesn’t require proprietary firmware, but it’s Bluetooth version 1.1 which it has its limitations

  • DaTingGoBrrr
    1·
    10 hours ago

    I am not sure if it required a blob or not but I use an ASUS USB-BT500 on my Arch system and I only installed the bluez package for it to work (and bluedevil for the GUI on KDE).