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<font size="+1">Spenser is right: get a compatible USB-type modem to
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/8/20 4:10 PM, Spencer Yost wrote:<br>
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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.
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<div>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.
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<div>A supported USB wireless adapter is cheap. You might want
to use green shims to solve this technical problem.</div>
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at 3:01 PM,
Stephen
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<div dir="ltr">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.
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<div>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
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<div>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
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<div>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?<br>
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<div>(Laptop
is a Dell
Precision
M4400, a
workstation-class
machine when
it was new in
2008. I used
to run
Solidworks on
it)</div>
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