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!
Maybe you could say "thank you" one day, for example:
https://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/index.en.html
;)
There IS an Atheros WLAN card usable on T400 (authorized by Lenovo).
It is, however, a low-end AR2425 model.
I can search for its FRU ID for you so you can purchase one if needed.
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This is the one I bought. It does say AR2425, but it didn't work with my thinkpad.
https://www.amazon.com/Atheros-AR5007-AR5BXB63-Wireless-802-11g/dp/B009NQWYMY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1532611689&sr=8-1&keywords=ar2425
Obviously the card you purchased is NOT Lenovo's original FRU part and therefore not authorized by Lenovo's BIOS.
Here is what you need: A half-height AR2425 with this FRU: 43Y6511. Just search "43Y6511" on eBay and you should find some.
Note: This card supports the following ThinkPad models (those with GS/GM/PM45 chipset):
R400, R500
T400/s, T500
X200/s/t, X301
W500, W700/ds
This card doesn't require any firmware and is ready for use in any free/libre distribution. You don't need an external USB adapter if you have this one.
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Nice!
Does the dongle overheat and disconnect after periods of time?
I want to add my experience here.
I have too old and slow laptop Lenovo G50-30. Trisquel boots in 33 seconds. This is faster than all other GNU/Linux distributions.
I have another older and slower laptop Asus X552E, it runs GNU GuixSD, boot time is 30 seconds.
I have no troubles with my devices (but I had when run ubuntu 11,12 on asus with that videocard).
But Trisquel, GuixSD work always fine. I evaluate this as community achievement and want to become a member. Only web can help me to find support. This forum is quiet necessary. Thank you all FSF followers.
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I've never trie Guix. I was intimidated by the installation instructions. How was the installation?
Ought to admit Youtube as a resource where I've got help.
Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKXrGfDnUCk
The main problem is to get configuration file. Lahcen Agchar's video solved for me. Also video gived me idea how to part disk.
I have GuixSD with XFCE, when I tried different typing to change xfce to LXDE I could not. But I know there are not only XFCE, but LXDE and others.
This is my /etc/config.scm
$ cat /etc/config.scm
;; This is an operating system configuration template
;; for a "desktop" setup with GNOME and Xfce where the
;; root partition is encrypted with LUKS.
(use-modules (gnu) (gnu system nss))
(use-service-modules desktop)
(use-package-modules certs gnome)
(operating-system
(host-name "antelope")
(timezone "Europe/Moscow")
(locale "en_US.utf8")
;; Use the UEFI variant of GRUB with the EFI System
;; Partition mounted on /boot/efi.
(bootloader (bootloader-configuration
(bootloader grub-bootloader)
(target "/dev/sda")))
;; Specify a mapped device for the encrypted root partition.
;; The UUID is that returned by 'cryptsetup luksUUID'.
;(mapped-devices
; (list (mapped-device
; (source (uuid "12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789abc"))
; (target "my-root")
; (type luks-device-mapping))))
(file-systems (cons (file-system
(device "/dev/sda1")
(mount-point "/")
(type "ext4")
)
%base-file-systems))
(swap-devices '("/dev/sda2"))
(users (cons (user-account
(name "znavko")
(comment "zna vko")
(group "users")
(supplementary-groups '("wheel" "netdev"
"audio" "video"))
(home-directory "/home/znavko"))
%base-user-accounts))
;; This is where we specify system-wide packages.
(packages (cons* nss-certs ;for HTTPS access
gvfs ;for user mounts
%base-packages))
;; Add GNOME and/or Xfce---we can choose at the log-in
;; screen with F1. Use the "desktop" services, which
;; include the X11 log-in service, networking with
;; NetworkManager, and more.
(services (cons* (xfce-desktop-service)
%desktop-services))
;; Allow resolution of '.local' host names with mDNS.
(name-service-switch %mdns-host-lookup-nss))
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