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Spenser is right: get a compatible USB-type modem to solve compatibility 
w/o getting into the Wine swamp.

On 4/8/20 4:10 PM, Spencer Yost wrote:
> With Wine you are basically running a virtual machine (OK not really 
> but from a resources perspective it’s close) inside of the laptop 
> running Linux -  so you have two computers competing for the same 
> physical resources.  My guess is the resource limitation is the laptop 
> not the USB drive and there is probably some configuration you can do 
> to avoid it.  I stopped using Wine years ago so unfortunately I don’t 
> remember much.
>
> I also don’t think wine will help you with the connectivity issue? Not 
> sure if you’re using wine to be able to run some office products or 
> what but doubt it will help connectivity.
>
> A supported USB wireless adapter is cheap. You might want to use green 
> shims to solve this technical problem.
>
> https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=301306
>
>
> Spencer.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Apr 8, 2020, at 3:01 PM, Stephen Offiler <soffiler at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 
>> We were discussing Linux a few weeks ago, and after deciding 
>> Mint/Mate would be a good choice, I had some initial success booting 
>> and running off a thumb drive. Then, I kind of set it aside.
>>
>> Now, renewed interest as my employer would like to see more work from 
>> home.  While I'm on the shop floor a lot, I do have a ton of 
>> paperwork as well.  I have my home computer (iMac) remote-connected 
>> to my workstation at work, which is... OK at best.  There are several 
>> things I find a bit annoying, and they'd mostly be resolved if I had 
>> two machines at home.
>>
>> Back to that old laptop.  The Libre Office package that comes with 
>> Linux is perfect for my needs, but I need to get it talking to my 
>> WiFi at home. I've got a Netgear USB Wifi interface for that laptop 
>> (tested, works fine under Windows) but Linux just ignores it. Google 
>> to the rescue.  The solution involves Wine, a compatibility layer 
>> that allows Windows stuff to run under Linux.
>>
>> Problem - during the Wine install, I got a message that I was out of 
>> memory.  The bootable thumb drive is 128GB, so it sure as holy heck 
>> isn't full.  I have been hearing that operation off a thumb drive 
>> relies heavily on RAM.  This laptop has 4 GB.  I was taking the 
>> memory error to mean the thumb drive, but that's clearly wrong.  
>> Maybe I need more than 4GB of RAM?  Anybody run into anything like 
>> this, any words of wisdom?
>>
>> (Laptop is a Dell Precision M4400, a workstation-class machine when 
>> it was new in 2008.  I used to run Solidworks on it)
>>
>> Steve O.
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