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[Stephen Offiler]

Thanks Spencer.  Yes, I am told Wine is what I need to unpack the Netgear
drivers.  Here's a quote from the instructions I'm trying to follow:

"...I used Wine to “install” the drivers. Install Wine and make sure it is
configured to Windows XP. It does not really install the drivers, but runs
the install wizard like it was on windows and unpacks them into a kind of
phony C:\ drive so you can use them. Use Wine to browse that C:\ drive and
you will find a folder WNDA3100v2. Inside that folder is a folder- Driver
and in that WinXP200. There you will find a file bcmwlhigh5.inf. That is
the prize you have been looking for..."  and this comes from here:
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1383708

Now... a supported Wifi adapter... why didn't I think of that?!

SO

On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 4:10 PM Spencer Yost <spencer at rdfarms.com> 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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