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Just to add my 2 bits to the conversation.....<br>
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4 gigs of ram in the laptop should be more than enough for most
things (if you leave wine out of the equation). I am running Debian
10 on a Asus laptop here with 4 gigs, with the OS installed on the
hard drive.<br>
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Another option not mentioned for internet access is if you are near
the wifi router, and if it has an ethernet port(s), use an ethernet
cable to connect the laptop to the router, there is a better chance
that the ethernet interface is support by Linux (Mint, or any other
flavor for that matter).<br>
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As mentioned by others, an adapter directly supported by Linux Mint
is a much better option. <br>
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Only addition I would suggest is to get wifi usb 3.0 adapter, it
should handle the 2.0 spec without a problem, and if you do have 3.0
usb port on the laptop, should speed it up considerably (assuming
wifi is not your limiting factor.....). <br>
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*If* you do want to try to use your existing adapter and are looking
for specific windows files for the usb adapter that you do have, you
may already have the files on the windows laptop you tested the
adapter on. You "should" be able to to find the inf file under
c:\windows\inf, and the inf file should name the driver file you
will also need, if you decide to try this. Having done this in the
past, I would recommend buying a new adapter.<br>
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As for farmers comment on the command line, he is probably correct
on it holding back Linux on the desktop/mainstream for home use. In
the business world it tends to be more "we are a windows shop
mindset" which tends to trickle down to end users....<br>
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I personally like the command line for many things, tends to be much
faster for many things (including getting yourself in trouble if you
enter the wrong command). <br>
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I run mostly Debian at home for desktop and server use, tho I do
have one 15 plus year old Centos 4.2 server still going (isolated
from the internet!) that I have been meaning to replace for the last
10 years or so ;o).<br>
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And the more I learn about Linux, the less I know......<br>
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Howard<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Thanks farmer. You all are being quite helpful,
and I really appreciate it. Imagine my dismay to learn just how
novice I really am - I never even considered there was such a
thing as a "linux-compatible network adapter" until Spencer and
now you mentioned it. Going to see if maybe Staples or Best Buy
or whoever else might have one; that way I can drive over there
and get it same-day. The company's buying this hardware.
Before you ask - they aren't too wild about buying me a whole
new laptop, and I don't blame them; at best I might fall into
1/2-1 day per week routine working from home. But incidentals
like these, no problem.
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 5:25 PM
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<div dir="ltr">You can get a Linux compatible USB WIFI adapter
for about $10 to $15 from Amazon.
<div>I wouldn't use Wine at all if it was avoidable. I take
it that the laptop was not WIFI because it was a
workstation model? was it Ethernet? 4 Gb should be plenty.
I'm running Linux Mint on an old desktop with less than
that but I'm not running it as USB but I have ran other
Linux on USB like Knoppix without any problems.</div>
<div>I have a $12.99 Linux compatible WIFI adapter sitting
in my Amazon shopping cart waiting to add a few other
items before I order. I have a USB WIFI adapter laying on
the table beside me but like yours it is for Windows.</div>
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3:01 PM Stephen Offiler <<a
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moz-do-not-send="true">soffiler@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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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 home.</div>
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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 Linux.</div>
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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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<div>Steve O.</div>
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