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I have an old laptop, 256 RAM pentium 3 CPU and a 20GB HDD. I have previoulsy run ubuntu 6.06 on it and it was ok (not fast but not slow) but for wireless i have to use these drivers for my...

I googled something like "linux wireless usb" and I found a pen that worked with ubuntu 7.something debian and lots of others suse etc... BUT i was in internet cafe (on holiday) and now I cant find...

every time I plug the usb wireless pen in it seems to freeze so I don't know what to do anymore I think I might have to buy teh connections for the Ethernet slot

I have an Ethernet slot but the "connections" behind the slot are missing you had to buy them separately and my brother didn't. So wireless is my only option unless I go to a pc shop and get them to...

How do I use this NDISwrapper then and what exactly do I do?

TP-LINK 54m Wireless USB adapter
Model No-TL-WN321G

I have no idea on how to do anything in Linux so please tell me exactly what to do

Many thanks
Harry

Ethernet slot doesn't work and where do I get all the packages from please?

I need someway of getting the updates and installing software.

thats the only way I can connect to the web though so what else can i do?

Also I cannot install anything while I am not connected to the internet so that is quite annoying

I just found out that my wireless usb pen/dongle is not compatible with Linux. Can anybody recommend a usb wireless device for me as at the moment I cannot get any updates, it must be usb though. Is...

I installed Ubuntu and it looks good is there anything you would recommend I should download for it any special programs please I only have 256 ram so no big programs please.

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After a while I have managed to get my laptop to boot from cd but now i don't know whether to put Ubuntu on it or suse. Its an old laptop with 256 ram hope fully i will upgrade it to...

I found out that i cant boot from the cd drive I need a floppy in to tell it to but I can only have one drive in at a time floppy or cd so im running out of options on this now. Does linux get all...

I burned the image to the cd using infra recorder but my laptop wont boot from cd. The bios is set to check the d drive first but it just doesn't do it. When it is in windows I can open the cd and it...

So it will run ubuntu without installing anything on my HD is that correct?

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I want to try out linux on my laptop but still keep windows Me ( I know its old but i like it). I would like to create what I think is called a live cd. Where i power up my laptop and...