I got my ThinkPenguin USB/Wifi card. Now I'm up and running on Trisquel Mini!
Its looking very good. Running like a top. You will no doubt here from me if
I run into trouble, but so far I'm extremely pleased.
Thanks for all the help.
- Zem
You have a Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG wifi card. This uses
nonfree microcode so it's best to get a USB WiFi adapter from Thinkpenguin or
Tehnoetic.
He's got a Dell.
Thanks! I'll contact ThinkPenguin and get a recommendation.
Zem
Finding free Wifi drivers can be annoying, if you can connect the computer
through ethernet, you might be able to find something in the repository.
There are some non-free wrappers for driver blobs, but I cannot recommend
them. This site (recently shared with me by a member) will list good
Run lspci and lsusb in a terminal. Post the output here.
Be careful though. According to h-node.com there are some computers that
prevent installing wifi cards not-approved by the vendor? My old mackbook was
one of them :(
I did both, but cannot get the info to this forum. No wifi of course, and any
attempt to copy and past to a doc, then to a flash or exsternal HD all ends
with Error opening file'/media/Seagate Backup Plus Drive/zem': Read-only
file system. So I cannot even transfer it to send.
When I have
Just put a plain text file in some place that you can write to. For instance,
$ lspci /tmp/lspci.txt
$ lsusb /tmp/lsusb.txt
Chris has mentioned that it's a particular group of companies that does this.
From memory, I know the list includes Apple, IBM/Lenovo, Toshiba, and HP. I
think there are a couple others I forgot about.
Thanks Legimet,
I did try running:
sudo mount -o remount,rw /media/Seagate\ Backup\ Plus\ Drive
But I got the error message:
mount: can't find /media/Seagate BackupPlusDrive in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
Did you type that command exactly with all of the spaces?
Oh: yes I did.
What is the output of mount? (with no arguments)
Will get to that tomorrow. Thanks for the help.
Here it is. I believe it is all there.
zem@zem-Inspiron - 1520:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory
Controller Hub (rev 0c)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 PCI Express
Root Port (rev 0c)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel
Thanks for the help !
Thank you for the welcome, Magic B.
Okay: I got Trisquel Mini partitioned successfully! Huzzah!
The OS loaded from a burned disk nice as you please, thank you very much
Ishmael. (It took some time on the old Inspiron 1520, but it did the job.)
One hiccup: after install I could not get a
Hello all.
I'm pretty new to GNU/Linux, and have been using and getting to know the
basics of Ubuntu for about a year, which I installed on an old Inspiron 1520.
I would like to make the move away from Ubuntu to Trisquel for all the
reasons you know so well.
I have burned Trisquel Mini
I'd suggest just burning the .iso, and installing. You can always back up
your home directory, and note your repositories, and what programs you have
installed. I don't know how old your computer is, but from what I hear
Trisquel is light on resources. You could test by installing to a
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