[olug] Looking for a good laptop distro

[Rob Townley]

A search of your lspci line above found this solved.  TLDR but I believe
adding an alias because confusion regarding Asus, Dell, and intel.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2242147&s=c923059247fafa80345edaca09f253fb&page=2
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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