Hi Folks, I am not very clever with these things and rely heavily on the good folks who populate these forums!
My only previous experience has been using Linux Mint which I have had on several old machines.
With this lock down and being totally alone, I have dusted off a very old laptop which has Windows XP on it.
For some reason it will not boot into windows, I tried a USB stick with Linux Mint 17 32bit, but it wouldn't "see" the USB at Boot, so I enabled "Legacy Support" in BIOS but still the drive was ignored at Boot, so I finally tried an old disk copy of Linux lite which did boot after a few complaints.
I was really trying to find out just why XP wasn't booting, but I guess that was expecting too much of my tiny brain!
As Clint Eastwood used to say in Dirty Harry, "...a man's gotta know his limitations!"
Having taken the line of least resistance, I am now wanting to install either Linux lite or another Lite distro on this machine but first, I would like to be able to activate the WiFi card. It is a Linksys Wireless G Notebook Adapter Model WPC54G and slide into a PCI card slot in the laptop.
It was working just fine with Windows XP, and I recall using it with Mint a long time ago but now with this install Linux 3.13.0-24-generic(i686) I can't find out how to install the driver.
Can anyone help me please?
My only previous experience has been using Linux Mint which I have had on several old machines.
With this lock down and being totally alone, I have dusted off a very old laptop which has Windows XP on it.
For some reason it will not boot into windows, I tried a USB stick with Linux Mint 17 32bit, but it wouldn't "see" the USB at Boot, so I enabled "Legacy Support" in BIOS but still the drive was ignored at Boot, so I finally tried an old disk copy of Linux lite which did boot after a few complaints.
I was really trying to find out just why XP wasn't booting, but I guess that was expecting too much of my tiny brain!
As Clint Eastwood used to say in Dirty Harry, "...a man's gotta know his limitations!"
Having taken the line of least resistance, I am now wanting to install either Linux lite or another Lite distro on this machine but first, I would like to be able to activate the WiFi card. It is a Linksys Wireless G Notebook Adapter Model WPC54G and slide into a PCI card slot in the laptop.
It was working just fine with Windows XP, and I recall using it with Mint a long time ago but now with this install Linux 3.13.0-24-generic(i686) I can't find out how to install the driver.
Can anyone help me please?