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From: "phanisvara das"
On Sunday 04 October 2009 03:09:12 am david feustel wrote:
Neither the wireless nor the wired ports worked so I had NO internet access until I reinstalled vista.
i think you're jumping the gun a little early; and if you go for MS again, why vista? to me XP seems a much better choice, or even windows 7 (my kids tell me that's much better than vista; didn't try it myself).
I only went back to vista after trying Opensuse, Fedora 11, and OpenBSD 4.5 on the laptop. I had been in the hospital with no good internet acess for 2 months and I decided that Windows Vista was better than no access. I still prefer LINUX.
i had similar problems with an earlier version of openSUSE, that i couldn't get the network card working after installing. it did work when running from the live CD, though. eventually i managed to copy the hardware driver the live CD was using to an existing ntfs drive, and moved it into the new linux installation after reboot; that got my network working.
_if_ your lennovo runs from a live CD including network, you could try that. if not you should be able to get a driver from the IBM or lennovo website; IBM is doing quite a lot these days for open source development, particularly supporting their own soft- and hardware.
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