Technoethical Nano Bluetooth Adapter

Published: 2024-02-26T20:31:26+01:00

This Bluetooth adapter is one of the only dongles on the market that can run on a fully free OS (AKA, Linux-libre kernel) and isn't stuck on an ancient version of the Bluetooth protocol. I used one for two years before my repeated abuse of it made it completely and utterly fall apart (I bent it a lot and accidentally ripped it out of the USB port one too many times). I have now acquired a replacement.

I found it via the Free Software Foundation's Respects Your Freedom initiative, a list of products that are certified to work on fully free hardware. It's surprisingly hard to find out if Bluetooth dongles work on the libre kernel. Many Bluetooth dongles, even the ones that explicitly support Linux, actually require non-free firmware.

License: CC-BY-SA-4.0.

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