<div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks Stuart! I don't doubt that it probably isn't as hard as it sounds, and I'd certainly learn some things along the way. Yesterday I relegated the whole wireless discussion to the back burner by running a cable from my basement home-office up to the closet on the 2nd floor where the modem/router lives. Not as hard as it sounds; there have been various cables run there in the past, and I used an old defunct satellite TV cable to pull my Ethernet thru. The cable itself was donated by the IT guy at work. In order to regain the full portable aspect of the laptop I'm still going to have to tackle the Wifi adapter at some point, but for now it's main task is a secondary workstation in the home-office to roughly approximate the dual-monitor setup I have come to rely upon at work. Whether I do as you suggest and see about getting the existing Netgear device running, or as farmer and Spencer suggest and purchase a compatible one.... well that will depend on my desire for a learning experience.</div><div><br></div><div>SO<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 8:30 AM Stuart Harner <<a href="mailto:stuart@harnerfarm.net">stuart@harnerfarm.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_855573988921586360WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">Steve,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">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).<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a name="m_855573988921586360__MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></a></p><div><div style="border-color:rgb(181,196,223) currentcolor currentcolor;border-style:solid none none;border-width:1pt medium medium;padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> AT [mailto:<a href="mailto:at-bounces@lists.antique-tractor.com" target="_blank">at-bounces@lists.antique-tractor.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>cgs<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 08, 2020 2:30 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:at@lists.antique-tractor.com" target="_blank">at@lists.antique-tractor.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [AT] [OT] Back to Linux Discussion<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">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.<br><u><a href="http://forums.linuxmint.com" target="_blank">http://forums.linuxmint.com</a></u></span><u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">On 4/8/20 3:00 PM, Stephen Offiler wrote:<u></u><u></u></p></div><blockquote style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal">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. <u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">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?<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">(Laptop is a Dell Precision M4400, a workstation-class machine when it was new in 2008. 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