AR9462 Atheros wireless driver

Welcome to GNU/Linux.

You could try using a newer Linux-libre version. You could try this: http://jxself.org/linux-libre/

Thanks, there is a free world out there :)

Hi JaqLondres!

The reason why your wireless card does not want to work is that it requires Linux 3.2 or later. You can either install the latest Linux-libre kernel from PPA or upgrade to Trisquel 6.0 "Toutatis" when it is ready.

Thanks, I'm exploring other releases of Linux-libre. BTW, in Trisquel Bash there is no 'make' command?

Make isn't part of BASH. Install the package called build-essential.

Hi JaqLondres!

Make is a separate program. If you don't have it, you can install the package suggested by jxself.

Also, please note that we don't call Trisquel "Linux" because linux is just a kernel not an OS. We call "Linux" GNU/Linux. Trisquel is just one of GNU/Linux distributions (which uses a 100% free as in freedom version of linux called linux-libre, by the way).

Have you checked if your laptop is already in h-node (www.h-node.org)? It's a free software compatible hardware database. It would help a lot if you could report all of your devices like laptops, printers and internal components of your desktop computer to h-node and check that they are up to date if they are already reported.

Welcome aboard!

I've installed build-essential, build-essential linux-headers-generic, and build-dep linux packages.After this, I got to this point (part of the response to sudo make install):
"...Disabling iwl4965 ... [OK] Module disabled:
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/iwl4965.ko
depmod will prefer updates/ over kernel/ -- OK!
make: execvp: ./compat/scripts/compat_firmware_install: Permission denied
make: *** [install-scripts] Error 127 ...."
What else am I missing ?

Right, thanks;)