[olug] Looking for a good laptop distro

[Christopher R. White]

Ndiswrapper is the tool in question , I hadn't thought of that!
On Sep 26, 2014 1:29 PM, "Rob Townley" <rob.townley at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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