Librem 14 with WWAN m.2 LTE card

[Quarnero]

I was referring just to particular chips like Qualcomm MDM9607 CPU and Modem (Neoway N720 OpenLinux and Broadmobi BM818):

@Lvovich

In https://fccid.io/2AON8-BM818/Internal-Photos/B18W50495-BM818-Internal-Photos-4107093 you can see that BM818-A1 based on Qualcomm MDM9607 LTE modem (And as I know all IT in Singapore controlled/surveilled by USA).

Binary blobs are explained here: Binary Blobs and You – Purism, but (as I’m no expert) below explanation is my favorite one here:

@nicole.faerber

By now I checked and it turned out as expected, all of these require a proprietary closed source firmware at runtime, i.e. the kernel driver is required to download a firmware chunk into the card during card initialization. This rules them out for us (Purism). Sorry

Cheers
nicole