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You can only get windows updates if your network drivers work. With the Lenovos, Dells, and HPs I've been coming across early, Windows 7 and 8 are broken out of
by diyorgasms 11y ago
You can only get windows updates if your network drivers work. With the Lenovos, Dells, and HPs I've been coming across early, Windows 7 and 8 are broken out of the box, usually with no network drivers.
Strangely enough, Linux often works flawlessly with these same computers.
- tokenizerrr 11y agoI've never not seen wired networking work. It's been at least five years since I've handled a laptop where wireless did not work out of the box.
- ossreality 11y agoHow did you buy a laptop with an ethernet port in the last 5 years?
- cyrus_ 11y agoWith my Lenovo Thinkpad t450s, neither wired nor wireless networking work when you reinstall Windows 8.1 on your own.
- tokenizerrr 11y agoWow, that is genuinely surprising. Good to know.