Re: [Trisquel-users] trisquel policy on b43 drivers

[Igor . Zobin]

Getting a WLAN USB-stick would be the best option, the notebook would boot  
100%, no matter what the BIOS prevents it to do. It is just a device, like a  
USB mouse or a headset that you plug into the notebook at runtime.  
Fortunately, connecting different USB devices is still one freedom even  
proprietary BIOSes grant us.

Now it certainly costs you something. It is not much, though. As long you  
have no such USB-stick, try installing the non-free driver or a GNU/Linux  
distro with the binary blobs in the kernel (which is basically almost every  
other distro in existance).