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Submitted by McTaveesh on Sun, 10/18/2015 - 19:45

Installed Trisquel, no Wifi Drivers

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Sun, 10/18/2015 - 19:45
McTaveesh
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I just installed Trisquel in an attempt to get a completely free OS, I've used Ubuntu before. But there's no Wifi, so I'm assuming I have no wifi driver.
This is my hardware info:
description: Wireless interface
product: Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak]
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 34
serial: 08:11:96:c0:ed:28
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlwifi driverversion=3.19.0-15-generic firmware=18.168.6.1 ip=192.168.1.153 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abgn
resources: irq:28 memory:f2500000-f2501fff

Anything I can do about this?

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Sun, 10/18/2015 - 20:06
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pizzaiolo
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Welcome to Trisquel! :)

You can get a Wi-Fi dongle that works with free software. I and many others recommend ThinkPenguin: http://trisquel.info/sites/countclick.php?url=http://libre.thinkpenguin.com

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Sun, 10/18/2015 - 20:11
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Thanks for the recommendation, I'll look into it; but is this the only way?

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Sun, 10/18/2015 - 21:02
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Yes, unless you rewrite the Intel Wi-Fi firmware under a free software license and get it merged into Linux. :)

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Sun, 10/18/2015 - 21:10
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Hah okay, thank you.

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Sun, 10/18/2015 - 21:36
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Intel Advanced Blobs WIFI sometimes makes you unable to boot, and if it boots, your computer get lags.

Only Atheros chips will work.

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Sun, 10/18/2015 - 20:15
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And is it the small usb's you're speaking of?
Sorry I'm pretty unknowing when it comes to this stuff.

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Sun, 10/18/2015 - 21:48
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If it's for a laptop I would go for the small one (wireless n). I use the bigger one (wireless n) for my desktop. ThinkPenguin are based in the USA. If you want to order from Europe instead, check out tehnoetic.

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Mon, 10/19/2015 - 06:02
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ThinkPenguin has UK operation and a US operation. Either way your set.

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