[Assist] wireless drivers

[ingegnue]

It depends. Mine, from 2009, gave me no trouble. Newer ones might though. Perhaps research will do, or perhaps just try it and return it if the card is rejected. Or buy a USB one.

On December 28, 2014 12:52:35 PM EST, Binh-Khoi Nguyen <khoi at member.fsf.org> wrote:
>I've seen it mentioned by lots of people on the triquel forums.
>
>For, example:
>https://trisquel.info/en/forum/where-can-i-buy-liberated-wifi-card
>
>If you can confirm that it's actually not true, then I'll try to get my
>
>wifi card replaced :)
>
>On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 11:45:40AM -0600, Jorge Araya Navarro wrote:
>>I don't think such thing is even true...
>>
>>Binh-Khoi Nguyen writes:
>>
>>> I heard that sometimes the manufacturer blacklists wifi cards,
>allowing
>>> you to only replace a wifi card with another one from the same
>>> manufacturer. Is that true? How do you check whether it's the case
>for
>>> your laptop?
>>> On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 01:46:31PM -0600, Jorge Araya Navarro wrote:
>>>>
>>>>Rill writes:
>>>>
>>>>> This seems odd to me. Doesn't freedom suggest I get to choose
>exceptions
>>>>> or to use my laptop away from  a wired internet connection?
>>>>
>>>>Well, no, freedom is the right to do what we ought. That kind of
>freedom you talk about is a misconception of
>>>>what freedom actually is.
>>>>
>>>>You could get a new wifi card that works with free drivers, take a
>look here[1] and be sure that is a piece of
>>>>hardware compatible with you laptop's socket (for laptops it is
>usual that the card is a mini-PCI, but should
>>>>check first your actual wifi card)
>>>>
>>>>[1]:
>https://h-node.org/wifi/catalogue/en/1/1/undef/undef/yes/mini-PCI-E/undef/undef
>>>>
>>>>I did this for my old laptop.
>>>>
>>>>--
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>>>>Jorge Araya Navarro.
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>Parabola GNU/Linux-libre
>>EN: Ads Designer, Python programmer and contributor Parabola
>GNU/Linux-libre
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