[Trisquel-users] Re : Wireless card configuration

[magicbanana]

Those other GNU/Linux you have used were relying on a Linux kernel that  
includes some proprietary drivers and firmware (such as the kernel released  
by Linus Torvalds himself). A blob was responsible for your Wifi card  
functioning (and, who knows?, spying on you, opening a backdoor, etc.).  
Trisquel, like any 100% free distribution, uses the Linux-libre kernel where  
every blob is removed.

The recommended solution is to acquire a new Wifi card that perfectly works  
with Linux-libre. It is not a simple task as a same model can actually have  
some cards with a freedom-friendly chipset and some other cards with a  
chipset requiring a proprietary firmware. The only 100% sure way to  
freedom-friendly hardware (besides going from seller to seller testing the  
hardware one by one until finding one that works on your Trisquel laptop), is  
to buy it from ThinkPenguin. ThinkPenguin is the only seller that guarantees  
that every device it sells works with Linux-libre, hence Trisquel. Besides,  
by using the link I have just given, 25% of the benefits on your purchase are  
donated to the Trisquel project.