This adapter is a rebranded version of some chinese adapter, with free
software enabled. Such adapters could be bought from AliExpress/any other
chinese online store, for like $5. I am excited to hear about second fully
free wireless adapter, but would be searching for exact model in chinese
Also, why the best free WiFi adapter is just 150Mbps Draft-N ?
The fact that all the free hardware (wi-fi adapters, coreboot-supported
motherboards, etc) are a few years old, makes me really sad :(
The chip fully supports 802.11n
This is Draft-N specification, not Final-N.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11n-2009#Wi-Fi_Alliance
In short, manufacturers have rushed to release WiFi 802.11n devices
before the specification was finalized - and, as result, compatibility
between Draft-N
The problem with Unex DNUA-93F adapter is that it is available only from Unex
- and, currently, the minimum order quantity is 2000 pcs. Therefore, I am
going to search for chinese wifi adapter that is compatible with free
firmware yet has a lower price.
*** not an advertisement ***
That means, I could buy AR9271 or AR7010 device, and just install free
firmware onto it?
I apologize, seems I confused the chip model number...
After Trisquel installation, user needs to:
1) add exFat repository:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:relan/exfat
2) install exFat packages:
sudo apt-get install exfat-utils fuse-exfat
From what I read here, it looks like this is a free software:
https://launchpad.net/~relan/+archive/exfat
I
Thank you for detailed answer, Legimet :)
Free hardware should also be competitive! Well, it could cost about 10%-15%
higher, but not in three times ;)
1) http://www.loongson.cn/news_info.php?id=259
Recently, ICT has launched the Loongson-3B six-core desktop solution.
Loongson-3B is a six-core high-performance general-purpose MIPS processor
using 32nm manufacturing process, which is working at frequency of 1.2 GHz.
Tekmote.nl prices are about 5 times more expensive than from China with
shipping.
Here are some examples of real prices for 8089B model:
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Lemote-Yeeloong-8089B-8-9-opensource-laptop-Loongson-CPU-inside-mini-notebook-computer-linux-pc-for/2036803548.html
Very interesting thread! I agree with you that there are problems with
Trisquel security. However, I think there are no reasons to beat a half-dead
horse : Trisquel 6 would be outdated very soon. It is much better decision to
focus on Trisquel 7 and make sure that all the security bugs will
I believe, it would be time to start work on ARM version when ARMv8 64-bit
boards will be released and become popular. We are going to see some ARMv8
Cortex-A57 netbooks in near time - I hope ;)
Since our user/developer base is not large, it would be better to spend extra
time on improving Trisquel 7 , rather than supporting Trisquel 6. Even if
Canonical would decide to support 12.04 till 2022, we do not have to follow
their example, because our resources are much smaller than
Average price of this specific Wi-Fi router model (TL-WR841ND) is ~$25.75 at
our domestic market: exactly two times cheaper than a price of ThinkPenguin,
$52. I just don't get this multiply by 2 pricing policy... Devices with
free software should be competitive, otherwise the humanity would
The point here is: it is bad to distribute exactly the same hardware for the
double of its real price.
IMHO, Raspberry Pi's are overrated - not only in terms of free software, but
also about their hardware specifications.
Last time I did a market research, there were a lot of interesting board with
a better price/performance ratio, but without much popularity.
Raspberry Pi 2 doesn't seem to
From time to time I see this laptop selling at AliExpress for $100 (shipping
is included to this price).
But its' hardware is so old... Better wait for the new version of this
laptop, with new architecture
Shortened quote from FSF website:
"The BeagleBoard (various versions) uses the TI OMAP family of SoCs... The
graphics accelerator (GPU) and the video decoding hardware for formats such
as MPEG-2 are nonfunctional, because they require nonfree blobs to be
installed into them. The workaround
In any case, I think it is a perfect time to release a new version of
Trisquel ISO,
because it has not been updated for 1.5 years already... With such rare
update frequency,
head Trisquel developers might simply forget how to build a Trisquel ISO when
such need arises in future
WTF Trisquel is backdoored now?
This seems more like a problem with operating system or its behavior on your
hardware. Or maybe even a hardware problem (either a buggy southbridge or
dying USB drives). Does not seem to be a Libreboot problem - because, after
booting through the initial stage, Libreboot gives a complete
If we go to download page:
> Trisquel 7.0 LTS Belenos
>Release date: 11/03/2014 - 18:09
Still 2014 ??? This ISO contains a lot of outdated software with known
security vulnerabilities.
It requires a ton of updates after a clean install to each machine - what a
waste of bandwidth and
By being easily offended, Lisa Marie Maginnis has done a great harm to FSF.
Libreboot will always be a GNU project, because it cannot exist without GNU
software! You can't even approach this project without using GNU tools: GCC,
flashrom, etc. etc. etc. We should save Libreboot from the
Just to clarify, it was Lisa Marie Maginnis - the employee who was fired from
FSF. Leah is her friend, but we don't know if Leah if a transgender too
> If you want to help (rather than complaining that quidam does not work
enough), I am pretty sure quidam would be happy to publish a new ISO of
Trisquel 7 if you make one.
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/how-trisquel-made
I want to rebuild it, but a script can't be downloaded! Nobody ran
> can someone tell me how to change the wifi password/wifi name in librecmc?
The same way as it is done in OpenWRT. So, you could use OpenWRT wiki:
https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/uci/wireless
You need to edit /etc/config/wireless file using vi, could be done through
ssh
The same way as it is done in OpenWRT. So, you could use OpenWRT wiki:
https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/uci/wireless
You need to edit /etc/config/wireless file using vi, could be done through
ssh
librecmc is based on openwrt, so the instructions for SSH/Telnet will be the
same as here:
http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/firstlogin
Then you go and edit various config files like /etc/config/network ,
/etc/config/wireless and so on. Very simple
If you trust only the certain websites, wouldn't it be easier to use a whitte
list rather than black? You would be expanding your allowed sites list
gradually. Less convenient, but much more secure because you can't just block
everything bad - it is impossible! so block by default, and add
> The computers are evil* because many people using non-free software
I hope you already installed a coreboot/libreboot open/free software BIOS to
your computer? You know, the default UEFI has plenty of security
vulnerabilities, which could undermine your "VERY secret project" :P
that's bad :P
The number is 512 ! :) If yours is different, it is possible to solve this
riddle in almost infinite number of ways, receiving the different results ;)
Security through obscurity sucks, hopefully your "VERY secure system" will be
fully transparent in the end
lol, you are a complete opposite of RMS. Stop using his photo as avatar
Probably you have installed librecmc build which does not contain luci web
interface. If that is so, you can still connect via telnet/ssh and set up the
wifi router by editing the config files in console through vi editor
Weekends are coming soon! :) In celebration of that, let me give you some
moments of fun by sharing this excellent-written libre version of "Shrek is
love, Shrek is life" XD
> I
> I was only 39 years old
> I loved Stallman so much, I had all the FSF-approved distros and GNU
corelibs
> I
Sorry but Associated Press is a Fake News, heavily influenced by its liberal
ideology and contributors. Better not to watch TV at all, it is a zombie box
- waste of time
Government is just a huge business with a huge number of customers! Customers
vote with their vallets, citizens vote with their ballots. Countries are
having the negotiations and making deals, businesses are doing the same.
Business should care about their customers or eventually they will
"Trump was elected by russia some people say" - What other conspiracy
theories do you know? :) Trump was elected by United States citizens, not by
Russian citizens. If you seriously think that "Trump was elected by russia",
I say that green lizard men from Nibiru voted for Hillary XD
"He
Hi Lightmoon, please tell how you verified that a router doesn't work?
For additional security, wireless networking is disabled by default for
LibreCMC installations.
You have to connect to this router by Ethernet with Telnet or SSH,
and either through LuCi web interface or by using vi, edit
That's sad, though not surprising at all... :P
Where is Trisquel 8? (without systemd hopefully)
Well, there is a way - to simply wait until the release date. Here is a
countdown clock
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/trisquel-8-release-countdown-clock
If you doubt my words, please ask Ruben - he will confirm the 2020 release
date
I'm sorry but you didn't install Trisquel 8, you have installed Trisquel 8
Alpha. That is why you are having all these problems! Wait for the official
release of Trisquel 8, which is going to happen probably at 2020 year
Trisquel 8 is going to be released - probably at 2020 year if not later. Keep
waiting bros! ;)
Since a lot of people have been asking about Trisquel 8 recently, I made a
countdown timer until the official release of Trisquel 8:
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?iso=20200101T00=136=cursive
Please let me know if you like it
Why do you think that I am mocking the people? If you look at the pace of
Trisquel 8 development, you could easily estimate that we can't release it
before 2020. Let's be realistic please, okay?
It is semi-official, but - if you look at the current pace of Trisquel 8
development - you could easily see that we cannot release it before 2020
Why? If such a long time is needed for this release, it might be the best
Linux distro in the history of mankind. Cheer up! ;)
You are using the alpha version, which is called alpha for a reason: contains
more bugs than the average release version, so cant be called as "release".
Maybe you haven't encountered the bugs, but that could be because of your
specific software/hardware configuration, or maybe just a light
T8 would come out at 2020 and expire at 2021, its all planned! :)
Thank you, CalmStorm :D and coming Merry Trumpmas by the way ;)
Leah, thats nice to hear! Hope that one day you will be able to launch some
of the more modern laptops like Lenovo G505S - quad core AMD laptop without
Intel ME / AMD PSP , so has a good potential to be liberated. Open source
firmware replacement for its EC controller is being done by Paul,
I am sorry to burst your bubble friends, but
TRISQUEL 8 DOES NOT EXIST. PERIOD
It is only Trisquel 8 pre-alpha that exists.
Real Trisquel 8 will not come out until 2020
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/trisquel-8-release-countdown-clock
There could also be the hidden vulnerabilities built-in to the encryption
mathematical algorithms, I'm especially suspicious about the crypto highly
approved by the N S A as the public standards everyone should follow
Please add QubesOS , Void Linux and Artix Linux. QubesOS = secure OS where
the processes could be isolated at the independent virtual machines , but it
has systemd. Void Linux = runit instead of systemd, and overall an excellent
distro. Artix Linux = Arch Linux with OpenRC as default instead
Even if you'll give a small donation of a million dollars to Trisquel, it
will still be deep behind the Ubuntu. I'm seeing so many +100 euro donations
but its' just a waste of money and despite all these donation there is still
no Trisquel 8. Donation is an investment, and in this case its'
Nope, it is quite useful - this thread is raising the awareness. Trisquel is
in a deep trouble, and to get out of this situation 1st of all we should
admit this trouble and don't bury head in the sand
> 18.04 will be Trisquel 9
When? XXII century?
> They say they are speeding up its development
speeding up: snail speed --> turtle speed?
Forget about Debian. What's about Devuan? It's like Debian, but without one
fatal flaw - SystemD
There is no difference between Taiwan and China, same Asia. I don't believe
that Taiwan has flying unicorns that are making perfect computers.
Vega is not an option because it contains AMD PSP backdoor. Maybe RX580
because it does not contain it
Yes, the proprietary BIOS of your x61s might contain a whitelist that could
prevent laptop booting when the "unknown" wireless card is installed. You
would need to either hack your whitelist to remove it completely, or to
replace some whitelisted card IDs with yours, or just replace the
> So that is the simplest guide you say? Okay thanks for telling me!
Yes - maybe not the shortest, but very detailed one - and that should make it
harder to do something wrong ;-)
> I saw, odd isn't it. :)
My understanding is that Intel used some insecure "speedhacks" to gain an
unfair
Try following the guides like this one -
https://superuser.com/questions/1205089/how-to-determine-version-intel-management-engine-on-linux
- to try to check the Intel ME version. If you could detect the Intel ME
version, that means Intel ME is present on your platform.
Dude, when you are hiding from the mass surveillance, the quality of display
should be the least of your concerns! That said, the external HDMI port of
G505S is working even when a coreboot is flashed.
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