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Acer Aspire 5750 6438 Ubuntu

T_Yamamoto

T_Yamamoto

Lifer
So I loaded up Ubuntu onto a usb and was playing around with it on this specific laptop and I decided to install Ubuntu.

I install it, and at this point the wifi was working because I had installed the linux drivers for it.

Once I installed and booted up, it was missing the drivers and now I can't remember what its called.

Help? 🙂
 
T_Yamamoto said:
Last time, the drivers were on the ubuntu software place
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They still should be. A quick look said your wireless uses a Broadcom chipset. Using the instructions from the linked page, find out exactly which model it has, and pick the correct driver accordingly.
 
lxskllr said:
They still should be. A quick look said your wireless uses a Broadcom chipset. Using the instructions from the linked page, find out exactly which model it has, and pick the correct driver accordingly.
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i ended up reformatting and reinstalling windows

(mom originally dropped laptop and it "broke" windows, wanted to use Ubuntu to see if it would fix it, but i reformatted and now it works) :thumbsup:
 
T_Yamamoto said:
i ended up reformatting and reinstalling windows

(mom originally dropped laptop and it "broke" windows, wanted to use Ubuntu to see if it would fix it, but i reformatted and now it works) :thumbsup:
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How can you break the OS installation by dropping the laptop? If the impact would damage the HDD you wouldn't be able to install linux on it.

btw, if you ever want to go linux, install Debian
 
Jodell88 said:
I strongly disagree. There are way better choices for a first distro than debian.
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Depends on the user. Someone technically oriented shouldn't have too much trouble, but for the general user, I think the *buntus make a better intro. They take care of the smaller details so you can concentrate on how it isn't Windows, and get used to basic GNU/Linux terminology and maintenance.
 
lxskllr said:
Depends on the user. Someone technically oriented shouldn't have too much trouble, but for the general user, I think the *buntus make a better intro. They take care of the smaller details so you can concentrate on how it isn't Windows, and get used to basic GNU/Linux terminology and maintenance.
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I meant for the general user. I'm sorry that I didn't make it clear in my post.
 
Jodell88 said:
I meant for the general user. I'm sorry that I didn't make it clear in my post.
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I understood what you meant, I was just clarifying a touch. A lot of people act like Debian's ZOMG HARD! and stay away due to that reputation. It's incrementally more difficult than Ubuntu, but nothing someone halfway technical couldn't deal with from the start. Anyone that can comfortably install, run, and maintain Ubuntu shouldn't have any difficulty with Debian. A little more setup is all it is really, and a touch more work if you want non-free drivers, but it doesn't deserve its reputation for 1337 haxorness a lot of people give it.
 
lxskllr said:
I understood what you meant, I was just clarifying a touch. A lot of people act like Debian's ZOMG HARD! and stay away due to that reputation. It's incrementally more difficult than Ubuntu, but nothing someone halfway technical couldn't deal with from the start. Anyone that can comfortably install, run, and maintain Ubuntu shouldn't have any difficulty with Debian. A little more setup is all it is really, and a touch more work if you want non-free drivers, but it doesn't deserve its reputation for 1337 haxorness a lot of people give it.
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This, I am fairly new linux user, but I find Debian to be much more hassle free than fedora or ubuntu. Technically I had a problems with drivers for my laptop on both distros, including dozens of programs were only possible to install after installing several packages first. The Debian worked out of the box and the GUI is much better designed and is in general very easy to learn and install. But I assume that general non technical person, if transitioning from windows or mac os to linux will encounter problems, but this scenario is very unreal, unless they are forced to that in work or so, I don't think that your average blond girl using computer to watch high school musical and facebook will ever start to use linux, that's fact.
 
inf1nity said:
Not used it ever, but they say you need to have a good understanding of linux and CLI to use it properly.
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Nah. It helps to have the basic concepts of GNU/Linux down, but even that isn't essential if you're willing to learn. It really isn't much different from Ubuntu. Ubuntu makes installing proprietary software easier, and they give a nice setup out of the box, but otherwise I do little different on Debian than I did on Ubuntu, including seldom using the terminal. I don't use the terminal much, and when I do it's only out of convenience. I can only think of one time I *had* to use the terminal, and that was when I broke X and used the console to fix it. That would have applied to any distro, and isn't Debian specific.
 
WEll guys i tried Debian 7.0 whezy it run ok but i could never get the drivers for the wireless card so i only could run it off the inthernet cable,so i went to xubuntu and it was not dificult to find the drivers which is part of the repository packages.
 
If you have issues with Ubuntu, and don't want to invest in a new HD, you can install it to an SD card or thumb drive. The drive performance is what you'd expect, but it works pretty well once everything is loaded.
 
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