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USB Wireless Adapter

  • 03-05-2009 03:11PM
    #1
    Effluo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,890 ✭✭✭


    Hey everyone,

    i've got a really old dell laptop with 256mb of ram and a pentium 2.4ghz processor...

    I posted a thread earlier about which version of linux i should use and that was very helpful thank you.

    I tried puppy but it didn't really work too well with it...
    but i'll try the others later.

    What i'm wondering about now and why i set up a new thread is because the laptop has a wireless usb adapter (netgear wg111t) when i ran puppy with the laptop the graphics side of things just didn't work with the laptop but it also would not see the usb wireless adapter, i tried to install the driver for it and i'm supposing the windows drivers don't work for it.

    Will i have the same problem with all versions of linux?


Comments

  • #2
    An Fear Aniar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,377 ✭✭✭An Fear Aniar


    No, other distros can work better. Try Xubuntu. I thought 256MB was too little ram but someone else said Xubuntu can work fine with that much memory, so give it a go. It should work much better with your hardware.

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