Re: [Trisquel-users] Wi-Fi and Hybrid graphics

2015-11-12 Thread daigege2
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Re: [Trisquel-users] Wi-Fi and Hybrid graphics

2015-09-09 Thread moxalt
That seems fair enough. In retrospect, I have to apologise about that post. I always have a tendency to jump to recommending Debian. It was my first distro (running on a laptop with non-free wifi) and still holds a special place in my heart. My general course of action is to first recommend

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wi-Fi and Hybrid graphics

2015-09-09 Thread tomlukeywood
"In retrospect, I have to apologise about that post. I always have a tendency to jump to recommending Debian." there’s nothing wrong with recommending Debian i run Debian on several of my servers Debian is free software aslong as you make sure not to enable the contrib non-free repo's

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wi-Fi and Hybrid graphics

2015-09-09 Thread Dave Hunt
In mine, as well! It's beside Trisquel and pre-unity Ubuntu. :) On 09/09/2015 03:26 PM, tomlukeyw...@fastmail.co.uk wrote: > Debian has a special place in my heart too!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wi-Fi and Hybrid graphics

2015-09-08 Thread tomlukeywood
why not just sell the GPU and buy one that works with free firmware?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wi-Fi and Hybrid graphics

2015-09-07 Thread gerard . wypych
Thanks for replies! @onpon4 Well, that adapters are very expensive considering that there is hardware with non-free firmware that costs like 5-7 USD (with taxes included). Thanks anyway. I will keep in mind that such things exist. @lembas I've just checked and there isn't such options.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wi-Fi and Hybrid graphics

2015-09-07 Thread onpon4
The wireless card not working has nothing to do with a "GNU license". It's much more simple than that: there simply isn't any libre software that can be used with these devices. In fact, a lot of wireless devices have this problem. The only solution is to buy a new one. Think Penguin is a

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wi-Fi and Hybrid graphics

2015-09-07 Thread t8mf4nu6lizp
Regarding the hybrid graphics, have you checked your BIOS setup for a switch? (Apparently older models had one.) Besides that there is http://bumblebee-project.org/ (GPL)

[Trisquel-users] Wi-Fi and Hybrid graphics

2015-09-07 Thread gerard . wypych
Hi all, At the beginning I would like to say that I am new in Linux and Trisquel. I have two problems with Trisquel at the moment. First, wireless network card in my notebook doesn't seem to work at all. I've read that Intel wireless network cards doesn't work with Trisquel, because of GNU

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wi-Fi and Hybrid graphics

2015-09-07 Thread moxalt
> Linux GNU/Linux, GNU+Linux, or GNU. Linux is a kernel for UNIX-likes. > So, is there any way to force this card to work with Trisquel? This appears to be caused by a lack of compatible firmware in Trisquel, because Trisquel only provides free firmware while the GNU+Linux compatible firmware

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wi-Fi and Hybrid graphics

2015-09-07 Thread onpon4
> all systems with Linux kernel There are only two major systems that use Linux as the kernel: GNU/Linux (what people usually call "Linux"), and Android. These systems are not very similar. You probably don't want Android on a normal PC.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wi-Fi and Hybrid graphics

2015-09-07 Thread t8mf4nu6lizp
> They say that it supports Linux Unfortunately this statement is useless since the Linux kernel contains binary blobs. Free distros like Trisquel are based on Linux-libre which is Linux minus the non-free parts.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wi-Fi and Hybrid graphics

2015-09-07 Thread greatgnu
sell your lappy and with the moneyz buy one with an intel gpu older than skylake. :)