Re: [Trisquel-users] when is atheros ar 9271 wifi free software?

[jason]

"I found out that is not so. I tested it on an entirely free software debian  
8 distro. Only by installing non free package atheros-firmware. Then it  
worked."

This is because Debian hasn't packaged up the free firmware. They still to  
this day only provide people with the older version that's proprietary. For a  
distro that people proclaim about being all about freedom you'd think they'd  
have jumped on replacing the proprietary firmware with the free one...