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Hello there, I am still running my desktop with MS Vista but have bought a secondhand laptop with the sole intention of exploring the Linux distro, with a view to ...
  1. 04-02-2008 #1
    milservuk
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    Hi

    Hello there,
    I am still running my desktop with MS Vista but have bought a secondhand laptop with the sole intention of exploring the Linux distro, with a view to using this as my main OS in years to come.

    As an initial step, I have managed to load up OpenSuse 10.3 on the laptop as a dual boot system. The laptop is also running MS XP Pro on the other partition (I have split the 60Gb HDD roughly 50/50). The hardware is: Intel P4 3.20Ghz; RAM 512Mb; ATI Radeon RS300 5835 and Broadcom BCM 4303 802.11b Wireless LAN.

    I am still familiarising myself with all the menus and the many differences with MS. I have no experience of programming language (other than messing about with an old Sinclair Spectrum many moons ago).

    I have an initial problem in that the Wireless card does not seem to start at boot and therefore I cannot get online wirelessly with Suse. I shall post my problem in the relevant forum shortly, but any assstance would be welcome.

    Thanks
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    Hi milservuk !

    Welcome to the LinuxForums !

    Do start a thread for Wireless problem in Wireless Internet section and we'll try our best to help you. I hope you will enjoy your stay over here.....
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    Welcome to the forums!

    Hope you will enjoy using Linux and have lots of fun with it.
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