By the way with regards to your question about installing Ubuntu and the
non-free driver that would be the last thing I would do (well short of
installing windows). While I can't advocate installing non-free software it
is your computer and you can do with it what you want. However lets say you
were to install the non-free software you have two choices.
1) Install Trisquel with non-free driver. This means that you have 1
non-free program on your computer.
2) Install Ubuntu with non-free driver. This means you have quite a few
non-free programs on your computer.
(1) is obviously preferable to (2).
Now option (3) would be as mentioned above to get a wireless device that
works with Free Software which is the recommended option. (1) and (2) are
non-recommended options however (1) is definitely preferable to (2)
