Considering Trisquel. I Have Questions
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I loaded Trisquel for the first time on a USB thumb drive and booted it. The colors and windows are pleasant. I have some questions about Trisquel before installing it.
In the folders window, where all of the different folders are laid out, can the size of the text be made larger? It seems that every window and even in the start-up window controls, the font size is much too small for me. I see that the icons can be made larger but nothing about the text of the controls. I don't see how to make the icons in the start menu larger.
How does one connect the wireless WiFi? I went to the network area and selected wireless. This machine didn't search for the open networks and list them for me. I saw that my external antenna light was not blinking or even on. In Ubuntu 13.04 my WiFi antenna turns on when the computer turns on. It also recognizes all of the signals in the area. I can't really install Trisquel until the WiFi works. I use my machine for accessing the internet.
i'm just replying regarding the wireless (i have no idea about the default DE, I don't use it) - by the sounds of it, your wireless card is NOT supported by Trisquel. If it worked, you'd see wireless networks listed - i use the livecd (on USB really) to test wireless hardware for support - if nothing is listed = it's not supported. best of luck.
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În 2013-12-23 01:27, name at domain a scris:
> i'm just replying regarding the wireless (i have no idea about the
> default DE, I don't use it) - by the sounds of it, your wireless card
> is NOT supported by Trisquel. If it worked, you'd see wireless
> networks listed - i use the livecd (on USB really) to test wireless
> hardware for support - if nothing is listed = it's not supported.
> best of luck.
And that's probably because the wireless card of this laptop requires
nonfree software. Trisquel is a free distro, which means it doesn't
include any nonfree software, because it respects users' freedom to
control their own computer. If your wireless card doesn't work with free
software, it means its vendor wants to have control over its users
(that's you!) and you should change it with another card which works
with free software or you can add a wireless adapter on USB.
Useful links:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
http://www.gnu.org/distros/distros.html
http://h-node.org/wifi/catalogue/en
http://h-node.org/notebooks/catalogue/en
https://www.thinkpenguin.com/catalog/wireless-networking-gnulinux
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There is in the fonts menu mentioned by Armworm, a slider called "Text Scaling Factor". Move the slider to the right and your fonts get bigger evenly everywhere. Works great. Even at 1.1 the fonts get noticably larger.
One of the links related to ThinkPenguin is for you to buy a WiFI Adapter that will work on Trisquel.
https://www.thinkpenguin.com/
While you cannot conect to the Internet thru Trisquel with that Wireless adapter you can still install Trisquel and use it and qhen you need to get into Internet use the way you're connecting now till there developed drivers for your card or you buy another WiFI adapter to work with Trisquel.
edit: someone who knows... Do we need to use http://trisquel.info/sites/countclick.php?url=http://libre.thinkpenguin.com or http://libre.thinkpenguin.com in order to make Trisquel get 25% of the sale when buying in thinkpenguin?
Profits get donated to Trisquel if you get to Think Penguin via http://libre.thinkpenguin.com. http://trisquel.info/sites/countclick.php just redirects you to some other link, libre.thinkpenguin.com in the case of that banner; based on the name "countclick.php", my educated guess is that it's used to record the number of clicks that banner gets.
So, we shall mention http://libre.thinkpenguin.com to users. I mean, I've seen a lots of replies mentioning https://www.thinkpenguin.com/ instead of http://libre.thinkpenguin.com (including me). We must tell all the users to know this so no one retransmits the other link.
Thanx for the replay
If visitors to the site don't enter through the libre.thinkpenguin.com link (just thinkpenguin.com), any computers ordered will be sent with Ubuntu instead of Trisquel by default.
About the WiFi, could you please post the output of running "lspci" and "lsusb" in a terminal? (Use Ctrl+Shift+C to copy to the clipboard from the terminal)
If there's too much to fit in the screen enter in the terminal:
lspci | more
Buy any generic low-cost USB Wireless adaptor, only $8 - $10 bucks, and work well with trisquel.
Only if you're lucky.
Smallwheels, sorry, I made a mistake, it's because I'm newly adapting to the philosophy of the FSF.
My duty is highly recommend, you replace proprietary hardware for free, a good place to start is this:
https://www.thinkpenguin.com/catalog/wireless-networking-gnulinux
Maybe if it is PCI.
If it is not a laptop, you can replace the wireless card. With laptops it is a lot harder, with desktops it is easy.
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