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Well, you have to troubleshoot the wireless adapter, go through 3 or 4 sixteen step tutorials on how to install it, discover it's impossible with version 4 of t
by Prrometheus 19y ago
Well, you have to troubleshoot the wireless adapter, go through 3 or 4 sixteen step tutorials on how to install it, discover it's impossible with version 4 of the chipset (Linux drivers are only available for version 3 and below with the same serial number), sell the old wireless adapter on eBay, spend some time figuring out which adapters will work, check forums to find out which ones REALLY work, buy the new hardware, ship it, and follow a few more sixteen step tutorials keeping your fingers crossed that it will eventually actually work.
Meanwhile, every time you ask for help you have geeks helpfully telling you that you shouldn't be using wireless anyway because it's not secure, as if I were about to drill holes through the floor of the place I am renting for a month to accommodate their sense of what I need.
But I did mispeak. I managed to get Linux INSTALLED in a few minutes. It's actually getting the system to the point of usability that is the hard part.