The story goes something like this. I wanted to move to a completely Free Software distro, and when I tried a Trisquel image on my PC I couldn't get my wireless hardware to work (the problem resulted to be privative firmware dependant hardware), so I bought a card that was supposed to work without any privative firmware, a TL-WN851ND (Qualcomm Atheros AR9227 chipset), but it didn't work either, and even more strange, instead of not being able to even scan networks, as with the previous one, with this one I could scan networks without any problems, but when I tried to connect to them the connection just timed out (and yes, I did check the password).

Right now I'm running Fedora 25 and the card works just fine, but I would really like to move to any 100% Free Software distro, I have already tried with Parabola, GuixSD, Trisquel and Debian (without contrib and non-free repos), but non of them worked.

Any ideas of what the problem could be or how to solve it?

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