[Trisquel-users] Thank you Trisquel.

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I bought a "new" 10 year old Lenovo Thinkpad T-400 for $60. I love it but it  
has an intel wifi card for which there is no non-proprietary firmware. I went  
to the trouble of installing an atheros wifi card but unfortunately it wasn't  
on the Thinkpad's "whitelist" and the computer wouldn't boot. I changed it  
back and bought an atheros AR9271 usb wifi device from Think Penguin which  
does have non-proprietary firmware. I then attempted to install one of the  
other FSF approved gnu/linux distros (which shall remain nameless) and it  
didn't recognize the wifi card. I even went to the trouble of installing the  
firmware manually. It did recognize my network, but I couldn't log into it. I  
got a login failure. Then I decided to give Trisquel a try. I hadn't  
installed it in a while, but the Trisquel installer recognized the ar9271 and  
I was able to log in to my network. So I am now running Trisquel on my "new"  
Thinkpad T-400. And it runs really well, and fast. Thank you Trisquel!