I've heard of a successful solving the issue by a USB Dongle before, and I
can only recommend using a dongle, which has been confirmed as working with
the libre kernel; in other words: rather invest into working hardware, than
possibly submitting some non-working one in the category not
Depends on what you mean by proprietary hardware. We certainly are reliant on
closed designs. Those hardware designs can't be modified or used by others.
However this is a separate issue from free software. The user can't modify
the hardware even had the designs been 'open'.
x86 is a
Not to nitpick although I think this isn't quite accurate. I believe
the Lemote doesn't have a BIOS. It isn't that it has a free BIOS.
It has a free program that initializes the hardware, shows a menu of
kernels to run and boots one of them, supports network booting and
flashing itself. It's
Good to know. That is about what I figured. It isn't using coreboot or a
non-free BIOS. Obviously there is something present prior to the OS (although
maybe I worded it badly). I think there is something which distinguishes the
BIOS in x86 systems with the firmware here. I know there is a
Use make help to list all of the possible configuration targets.
The reason RMS uses gNewSense is because he has a
[http://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html lemote laptop] which
contains a non x86 (MIPS I believe) architecture. Trisquel does not
have a MIPS version so he can't install it on his computer.
I believe he uses it since it has no nonfree
A link to Michal Maslowski's post can be found
[http://listas.trisquel.info/pipermail/trisquel-users/2012-April/008800.html
here]. For some reason it is not showing up properly on the forums.
According to
[https://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/031411-richard-stallman.html?page=2
this
For a newbie Free Software supporter, I can only recommend to install
Trisquel with Gnome, and concerning your hardware, there is a web page, where
you can check whether your wifi card is compatible with the libre kernel.
Here is the link:
http://www.h-node.org/
When starting with 100%
Here are the latest man pages. I have installed them on OSX and now have
access to complex.
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/
I believe that card is not compatible. There are a few versions of it and one
of them will work... although it is more expensive.
Using a USB wifi card to solve the non-free driver issue with an internal
card should generally speaking work.
Nobody here is going to recommend installation of a non-free driver/firmware
or help you with it. The primary benefit of Trisquel is freedom. If you are
really following the free software philosophically rather than the open
source philosophy the non-free option isn't an option. If you are
Not to nitpick although I think this isn't quite accurate. I believe the
Lemote doesn't have a BIOS. It isn't that it has a free BIOS. Some of the
hardware may be non-free. I know the newer one has a non-free 3d accelerated
graphics chipset for instance.
I think there is a bit of incorrect
By the way, I love this picture.
In order to know whether the wireless card is supported please paste output
of this command:
$lspci -nnk | grep Network controller
Thanks for the ping back.
Here is the link to the Linux Libre laptop.
https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-libre-gnu-linux-notebook
There's information on how to install, a reverse engineered b43 driver on
gNewSense.
However, the git clone command:
git clone
If you use [pre]make menuconfig[/pre] instead of [pre]make xconfig[/pre], you
won't require the QT libraries.
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