[pantalaimon]

This is about ESP32, it does not run Linux. And doesn’t have a WiFi card, the WiFi hardware is part of the MCU. It’s single processor is tasked with running both the user application as well as the 'baseband' or MAC layer

[jdiff]

With it reverse engineered, you could write software for the ESP32 to have it become the only fully open WiFi card for a Linux host.