Ok a few points that came to mind for me.
1) No one can make the choice to have you rebuy a piece of hardware for you.
However all we can tell you is at this point in time you won't get your
current piece of hardware without some non-free software. If you choose to
rebuy or install that non-free software it is up to you.
2) Yes I totally agree you can buy anything you want (assuming you have the
capital for it). I also had a computer before I became interested in Free
Software. Not all of my hardware worked, I can think of a TV tuner in
particular. In virtually all cases on this forum when someone comes to us
with a piece of hardware (usually wireless cards) that doesn't work with all
Free Software we will in almost all cases recommend they get one that does
work with all Free Software.
3) As I said in statement (1) pretty much your two choices at this point is
if you want your wireless to work are buy a card that works with Free
Software or install non-free software (which people here would obviously not
recommend). If you don't mind me asking if you don't follow RMS and Free
Software why are you using Trisquel vs Ubuntu? Don't get me wrong I love it
when people use Trisquel. But if you consider following RMS a cult of blind
idealism why would you use a GNU/Linux distro in which its primary goal is to
follow that "blind idealism"? That is Trisquel's advantage over Ubuntu.
