Re: [ilugd] [OT]Wireless Router

2007-09-12 Thread Sudev Barar
On 11/09/2007, Vikas Rawal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Off the topic, at the end of the day, I was unable to install ubuntu on the machine either. It was a new AMD dual core HP laptop with broadcom wireless lan and nvidia graphics card. Ubuntu feisty fawn did not install either with the regular

Re: [ilugd] [OT]Wireless Router

2007-09-12 Thread Vikas Rawal
My machine specs match and this is going out using Ubuntu on wireless. You need to blacklist bcm43xx driver and use ndiswrapper to install the original windows inf file. See my blog at blog.sudev.in for details. Thanks Sudev. I will try to implement your tips next time I am in Kolkata, and

Re: [ilugd] [OT]Wireless Router

2007-09-12 Thread Vikas Rawal
Also, he paid for the Vista along with his PC. The philosophy is not to force and convince people for using Linux/Ubuntu. If a user can afford hefty sum for the Operating System, he can use that. Linux and FOSS started for free availablity of OS and software, and share the knowledge. There

Re: [ilugd] [OT]Wireless Router

2007-09-12 Thread Puneet Lakhina
On 9/12/07, Ravi Shanker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 22:46 +0530, Goldwyn Rodrigues wrote: I recently bought a Dell Inspiron 1420 laptop. I have an existing Airtel DSL Connection at home.I want to share this internet connection with my laptop through a wireless

Re: [ilugd] [OT]Wireless Router

2007-09-11 Thread Goldwyn Rodrigues
I recently bought a Dell Inspiron 1420 laptop. I have an existing Airtel DSL Connection at home.I want to share this internet connection with my laptop through a wireless router. My DSL modem is connected to my desktop via Ethernet. I have never bought a wireless router so dont know what to

Re: [ilugd] [OT]Wireless Router

2007-09-11 Thread Vikas Rawal
I think Ubuntu can resize and re-partition Windown NTFS partitions, but I am not sure about Vista. Ubuntu will ask you during install. I was recently trying to use Ubuntu to resize an NTFS partition created by vista, only to find that ubuntu could not resize it. Vista, as I mentioned in an

Re: [ilugd] [OT]Wireless Router

2007-09-11 Thread Ravi Shanker
On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 22:46 +0530, Goldwyn Rodrigues wrote: I recently bought a Dell Inspiron 1420 laptop. I have an existing Airtel DSL Connection at home.I want to share this internet connection with my laptop through a wireless router. My DSL modem is connected to my desktop via

Re: [ilugd] [OT]Wireless Router

2007-09-11 Thread Ravi Shanker
On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 23:31 +0530, Vikas Rawal wrote: Eventually I convinced the person whose machine I was setting up to throw out Vista. Does that person is a old Linux user, familiar with Linux, or just you convinced him for Linux because you love Linux. Have you considered his works and

Re: [ilugd] [OT]Wireless Router

2007-09-10 Thread Deepank Gupta
Hi Puneet, You have two options regarding partitioning - either go for a clean install by formatting the drive and dividing the whole into two partitions - One for Ubuntu and one for Windows Vista. Or a better option would be to resize the disk in Windows Vista as it includes its own

Re: [ilugd] [OT]Wireless Router

2007-09-10 Thread Sudev Barar
On 10/09/2007, Deepank Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Puneet, [SNIP] Hi, I recently bought a Dell Inspiron 1420 laptop. I have an existing Airtel DSL [END SNIP] Mail list manners out of the window? In line / bottom posts please. -- Regards, Sudev Barar See you at 'Freed.in - freedom in

Re: [ilugd] [OT]Wireless Router

2007-09-10 Thread Deepank Gupta
Mail list manners out of the window? In line / bottom posts please. I am really sorry. Will keep in mind in future. ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in -

Re: [ilugd] [OT]Wireless Router

2007-09-09 Thread Sudev Barar
On 09/09/2007, Puneet Lakhina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ethernet. I have never bought a wireless router so dont know what to look for and what to watch out for. Dlink is usually a safe bet. Another question that I have is how do i go about installing Ubuntu on this laptop. Should i format the

Re: [ilugd] [OT]Wireless Router

2007-09-09 Thread Vikas Rawal
Another question that I have is how do i go about installing Ubuntu on this laptop. Should i format the drive,install ubuntu and then install the Vista Home Preimium that comes along with it. The pre paritioned configuration has a recovery partition also.Whats that bit for, and does it