[pm-h] Can't Move to Linux

[John Ellyson]

Mike,

Did a little digging around and found the link below, which is Intel's Linux
driver site.  I figured if anyone has a vested interest in ensuring that
there is a good, working driver for a wireless NIC in Linux, it would be the
manufacturer of that NIC.  In your case, that would be Intel.

http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/

In case you're still having issues and decide to restore back to Vista, you
can still experiment/use Linux on the laptop.  Check out Virtual Box (link
is below), which is a free virtualization product that Sun (now owned by
Oracle) had created and is maintaining and updating.  It's pretty easy to
use and setup.  In this case, you would use Vista as your host OS and have a
Linux distro as your guest OS.

http://www.virtualbox.org/

As for your networking issue, you won't face the same issue with Virtual
Box.  It's going to present a virtual NIC to the guest OS.  Just configure
the NICs of the laptop for bridging mode in Virtual Box.  Then the guest OS
will be able to access the real NIC directly.

Anyways, just thought that I'd toss that out as alternative that would allow
you to try different Linux distros while running Windows.

By the way, that's what I'm doing with my office system at work.  It's
running Windows 7 (64 bit) and I have multiple virtual machines created that
I can run.  Also, I've been meaning to do the same with my personal laptop,
but haven't gotten around to do it quite yet.

John Ellyson

On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Mike Flannigan <mikeflan at att.net> wrote:

>
>
> On 2/26/2010 7:28 AM, Mike Flannigan wrote:
>
>>
>> I would like to get any flavor of Linux installed
>> to my older-generation computer.  I have 2
>> old computers:
>> x86 Family 6 Model 7 Stepping 3 AT/AT Compatible 130,596 KB Ram
>> Intel (R) 4 CPU 1400 MHz 130,352 KB Ram
>>
>> I know that x86 is a Pentium 3.
>>
>>
>> I have tried 2 different downloaded versions
>> of the single CD install:
>> Fedora 12 i686-LIVE
>> I don't want a dual boot - I want a clean install.
>>
>> I have tried it at least 15 times.
>> It boots to the disk and gets to various places
>> each time.  Sometimes it freezes soon on
>> the lemon icon blue screen.  Usually it gets
>> past that, sometimes to the "Press 'I' to enter
>> interactive startup".  It takes the 'I' I press,
>> but never does anything after that.  I have
>> let it run all night, but it doesn't do anything
>> else.
>>
>> I want to make a move from Win to Linux and
>> need a starting point.  Buying a new computer
>> is not out-of-the-question, but I'd like to put
>> that off until later if possible.
>>
>> I have an old Dell portable and a 64 bit Linux
>> 2-yo portable I am also willing to use for this.
>>
>> I am open to any suggestions on what to do
>> and what to use.
>>
>>
>> Mike Flannigan
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> Now I'm trying to install Linux on a new model
> HP portable computer.  In fact it is 64 bit.
>
> I got Fedora 12 installed.  It didn't go the first
> time, but did the 2nd.  Used the entire hard
> drive for a clean install.  My problem is I
> could not connect to the internet (or my
> network).  Seems to be a common problem.
> I tried hard to fix it, but never got it done.
> One of many sites I used to try to fix it is:
> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-239096.html
> I had almost the exact same problem as on
> that site, but didn't get to a resolution like
> she eventually did.
>
> Then I tried Ubuntu.  It got past English language,
> but then just hung at Install Ubuntu.
>
> If anybody has any other Linux recommendations,
> please let me know.  Looks like I'm headed back
> to Windows and I'm not happy about that.
>
> My portable is an HP Pavilion dv9830US notebook PC
> that was running 64 bit Vista with relatively good
> success, but it was a bit slow.
>
>
> Mike
>
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