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[Stuart Harner]

Steve,

 

Your Linux distro is probably missing the driver for the wireless hardware. Linux does not detect hardware as well as Windows even though it gets better all the time. I suspect the age of your laptop has something to do with it.

 

Try booting under Windows and getting all the info for the wireless adaptor written down. Then search the Interwebs for a Linux driver and instructions on how to install it. This usually isn’t as hard as it sounds.

 

Another option is to get a wireless extender and wire the laptop to it. So your connection would be  Wireless router----Wireless Extender-----Laptop (via cable).

 

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Go to the Linux Mint Forum, which has hundreds of guys smarter than me, register and post the question. They may have a simpler answer.
http://forums.linuxmint.com

On 4/8/20 3:00 PM, Stephen Offiler 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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