Ubuntu Dual Boot error and Linksys Wireless usb adapter driver needed

[AdamG0694]

Hi all,

Recently I attempted to dual boot my Vista system with Ubuntu 8.10. To cut a long story short Vista did not like it's new partition and somehow made the 200GB of Hard drive space I allocated Ubuntu disappear

I used the Vista partition editor to create the partition for Ubuntu, now this is where I think I went wrong and I should have used GParted instead. I recovered windows with SuperGrub Disk and used a recovery disk to restore to factory.

I some questions:
1/. What did I do wrong (I would like to know, curious minds and all that )

2/. Can someone help me try and do it properly this time as I would dearly love to get spend less time on Vista.

3/. Does anyone know of a linux driver for a Linksys wireless N usb adapter.


Many thanks in advance,

Adam.

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

I some questions:
1/. What did I do wrong (I would like to know, curious minds and all that )

2/. Can someone help me try and do it properly this time as I would dearly love to get spend less time on Vista.

Vista Partition editor should not create any problem. Lets check existing partition structure of your Hard disk first.
Boot up from Ubuntu LiveCD, open Terminal and execute this

sudo fdisk -l

Post output here.

* Its small L in fdisk -l.

3/. Does anyone know of a linux driver for a Linksys wireless N usb adapter.

Check this thread and start new thread in Wireless Internet Forum.

[kmitnick]

devils casper is one of the best linux users, he helped me a lot and about the linux driver u can use a utility called ndiswrapper which uses windows' drivers , but i tried it over Fedora with belkin G USB Card it was identified but didn't work well , so try yours.

[kmitnick]

if you want to install ndiswrapper
sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils-1.9

after it is installed
ndiswrapper -i driver.inf
ndiswrapper -l to check if it is installed
ndiswrapper -m to load it to the modprobe
post the O/P to see what happens with you.