Dualboot with Ubuntu and XP?

[The Pentium Guy]

I'm currently on Debian Woody on one computer, and XP Pro on another. Planning on getting rid of the other computer, so I plan on doing dualboot.

Anyone know any guides? Also should I use Ubuntu or Kubuntu? I'm mostly a console linuxer so I'm really not sure what's the dealio with Gnome/KDE.

My only prerequisite is that the OS should be able to support a wireless card (Microsoft MN-70 I beleive) - I got Knoppix working with this thing beautifully on my friend's machine. Debian had really bad luck with it....ugh. I hatd to go out and buy an ethernet adapter (keep in mind that this is on an old comptuer). But now that I'm on a computer that's not near the router I wish to use my wireless card.

Thanks in advance.

-The Pentium Guy

 

[Leros]

Well, Ubuntu is Debain based for whatever thats worth.

 

[bersl2]

I think all the MS wireless hardware uses Broadcom, which "coincidentally" still won't provide info for drivers to this hardware. You can use ndiswrapper in the meantime (which is probably why it worked well for Knoppix, which has it by default, but not for Debian out of the "box"), but look at getting yourself better hardware for the future.

 

[Trevante]

My Microsoft MN-710 (USB; wireless B) uses the Prism2 chipset and I have it working just fine under Gentoo using the linux-wlan-ng drivers. Google linux-wlan-ng and go to their website. It's pretty easy to install and use, although you may have problems with WEP.

If your card uses a different chipset, you'll need different drivers.