[Trisquel-users] Re : Realtek RTL8188CE wireless problem

[magicbanana]

The driver is distributed under the GPL... but the firmware is proprietary.  
To run free, you will need to acquire another Wifi card (or a Wifi dongle,  
especially if your laptop vendor practice "treacherous computing").

It is very hard to know if a card that never ran will be handled by  
Linux-libre. The model alone is not enough because the manufacturers  
frequently replace the chipset of a given model. One strategy that works for  
sure is to buy the card/dongle from ThinkPenguin. By using the subsequent  
link, 25% of the benefits on your purchase are donated to the Trisquel  
project: http://libre.thinkpenguin.com