Re: [Trisquel-users] Unable to connect to Wifi network

[chris]

You may have to go with a USB wifi adapter as HP uses digital restrictions to  
prevent swapping internal wifi cards. Best to avoid HP, Dell, Lenovo, Sony,  
Apple, and Toshiba as these companies are notorious for making it difficult  
to use free software. Not that other computers won't be a problem, but at  
least it avoid this specific issue. The best thing to do is not buy from  
vendors who don't support GNU/Linux to avoid the other problems. However most  
vendors don't sell free software friendly hardware so your still asking for  
trouble- particularly with Trisquel. ThinkPenguin (disclaimer: I'm actually  
the CEO) and basically minifree are good. The minifree systems are a little  
better as they have a free BIOS (they're older refurbished Lenovos). The  
ThinkPenguin systems are much newer, but do have a non-free BIOS.  
Unfortunately Intel and AMD are making things very difficult. Our best  
direction is moving away, but it's complicated, as non-x86 hardware is still  
got problems. However it is a lot better in some respects than at least next  
generation Intel/AMD hardware. Though not all non-x86 hardware is better.  
Some is worse. It's more along the lines of the potential is there and there  
are some systems which can be designed that are / will be better.