[olug] Looking for a good laptop distro

[Rob Townley]

What is it called when a binary windows driver is wrapped in such a way to
be usable by Linux?  Definitely not something in default RedHat
repositories. I believe LinuxMint has this ... name escapes me at the
moment.

Will probably have to download the windows driver to a specific Linux
system folder so that it can be used.

Have you tested that WiFi even works in Windows?  Maybe it is hw problem?

Search GitHub.com and sf.net, kernel.org, and wherever intel stores their
open source for that WiFi hardware model.  There may be a native Linux
driver in dev.

Sorry to hear about driver problems.  Hope this helps.
On Sep 26, 2014 1:03 PM, "Justin Reiners" <justin at hotlinesinc.com> wrote:

> Yup. 13.04 13.10 14.04 14.10 beta.
> On Sep 26, 2014 12:40 PM, "Christopher R. White" <slaeyer at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Have you tried the latest Ubuntu 14.10 beta?  Its likely the hardware
> isn't
> > supported on older releases.
> > On Sep 26, 2014 12:20 PM, "Justin Reiners" <justin at hotlinesinc.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Opensuse didn't work either.
> > > On Sep 26, 2014 12:18 PM, "Justin Reiners" <justin at hotlinesinc.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Laptop is a Asus Q502L
> > > >
> > > > WiFi card in question:
> > > > 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 7260 (rev cb)
> > > >
> > > > Mint 16 17 Ubuntu 13 14 fedora 20
> > > >
> > > > Looking for support for Intel 7260 WiFi ac2 support (dell OEM model)
> > > > installing Intel drivers no worky so I have been using USB to WiFi
> > > adaptor.
> > > > Looking for btrfs out of the box. Debian or red hat based preferred
> but
> > > > not a requirement.
> > > >
> > > > Also not feeling the need to compile a distro lol.
> > > >
> > > > Usually run mint, Ubuntu, or fedora but have tried all of these so
> far
> > I
> > > > believe.
> > > >
> > > > Any recommendations? Spankx.
> > > >
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