On 8/14/2010 10:02 AM, John Ellyson wrote:
Mike,
Did a little digging around and found the link below, which is Intel's
Linux driver site. I figured if anyone has a vested interest in
ensuring that there is a good, working driver for a wireless NIC in
Linux, it would be the manufacturer of that NIC. In your case, that
would be Intel.
http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/
In case you're still having issues and decide to restore back to
Vista, you can still experiment/use Linux on the laptop. Check out
Virtual Box (link is below), which is a free virtualization product
that Sun (now owned by Oracle) had created and is maintaining and
updating. It's pretty easy to use and setup. In this case, you would
use Vista as your host OS and have a Linux distro as your guest OS.
http://www.virtualbox.org/
As for your networking issue, you won't face the same issue with
Virtual Box. It's going to present a virtual NIC to the guest OS.
Just configure the NICs of the laptop for bridging mode in Virtual
Box. Then the guest OS will be able to access the real NIC directly.
Anyways, just thought that I'd toss that out as alternative that would
allow you to try different Linux distros while running Windows.
By the way, that's what I'm doing with my office system at work. It's
running Windows 7 (64 bit) and I have multiple virtual machines
created that I can run. Also, I've been meaning to do the same with
my personal laptop, but haven't gotten around to do it quite yet.
John Ellyson
I have an Intel Wireless WiFi and then a Realtek
RTL8168B NIC. It appears there is no Linux driver
for that NIC, but I'm still looking.
http://xpdrivers.com/network/_1_14.cfm
Mike
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